Perryman, J;
Ball, SJ;
Braun, A;
Maguire, M;
(2017)
Translating Policy: Governmentality and the Reflective Teacher.
Journal of Education Policy
, 32
(6)
pp. 745-756.
10.1080/02680939.2017.1309072.
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Abstract
This paper deploys some concepts from the work of Michel Foucault to problematize the mundane and quotidian practices of policy translation as these occur in the everyday of schools. In doing that we suggest that these practices are complicit in the formation of and constitution of teacher subjects, and their subjection to the morality of policy and of educational reform. These practices are some ways in which teachers work on themselves and others, and make themselves subjects of policy. We conceive of the processes of translation, its practices and techniques as a form of ethics, the constitution of a contemporary and contingent version of professionalism through the arts of self-conduct. In all of this it is virtually impossible to separate out, as Foucault points out, capability from control. We argue that the development of new capacities, new skills of classroom management, of pedagogy, bring along with it the intensification of a power relation. We are primarily concerned with Foucault’s third face of power, pastoral power or government and how this interweaves and overlap with other forms of power within processes of policy and educational reform.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Translating Policy: Governmentality and the Reflective Teacher |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02680939.2017.1309072 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1309072 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Policy translation, power, Foucault, governmentality, care of the self, reflection |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1545209 |
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