“Part of Their Chemistry”: The Reproduction of Neoliberal Governmentality in Principal and Teacher Subjectivities

Duarte, Bryan J.

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“…Eleanor resisted the reshuffling of teachers by the district by being strategic about which teachers she wanted to keep, while some teachers’ mobility represented resistance to the increased workload created by the departmentalized schedule and the university consultancy program. These findings are consistent with prior work that discusses the tensions that teachers and leaders face as they are forced to engage with neoliberal governance over their work (Duarte, 2021; Duarte & Brewer, 2019; Duarte & Brewer, 2022).…”

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The Effects of School Choice Competition on an Underserved Neighborhood Public School

Duarte

2022

Educational Policy

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This critical ethnography utilizes critical policy analysis and a theoretical understanding of neoliberal racism to examine the practiced reality of school choice in a public, under-resourced, and historically underperforming neighborhood elementary school attended predominantly by Latina/o/x students. Despite improvement initiatives that resulted in performance distinctions, the school under study experienced substantial enrollment decline amidst the poaching of students by charter schools within the attendance zone. Moreover, the competitive school choice market within the school’s district resulted in the reshuffling of teachers, reinforcement of neoliberal improvement discourses, and even the exploitation of dual language students to raise the school’s market profile. The study provides a unique, up-close representation of marketization in public schools and the residualizing effects that school choice policies can have on public education writ large.

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The Effects of School Choice Competition on an Underserved Neighborhood Public School

Duarte

2022

Educational Policy

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“…Teachers' passive compliance and creative readings of policy were examples of resistance that were muffled by the dominant neoliberal policy context. As discussed elsewhere, these subjectivities were unable to completely realize their individual or collective agency in subverting the neoliberal policy agenda (Duarte, 2021); however, here we see that they were simultaneously constrained and free. These findings bear important and complicated implications for our understanding of resistance.…”

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“We’re in compliance”: Reconciling teachers’ work as resistance to neoliberal policies

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Brewer

2022

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Neoliberal polices such as standardized testing, teacher evaluation, and student performance accountability serve as market pressures that dictate teachers’ work. In this paper, we employ critical policy analysis (CPA) and critical ethnography in order to bridge theory and method. Specifically, we apply de Certeau’s (1984) theory of consumption to examine the clandestine ways that teachers creatively resist the policies that constrain them. Our findings, which are presented in three vignettes, demonstrate the ways in which teachers tactically read policy and engage in passive compliance. We conclude by discussing how the qualities of our participants’ subtle acts of resistance blur the line between compliance and resistance, which has implications for the study of resistance to neoliberal policies.

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An empirical study on the construction of sample branches in colleges and universities in promoting the development of students’ subjectivity

Liu

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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The development of student subjectivity constitutes a crucial dimension in achieving the comprehensive growth of students. This study examines the role of constructing model branches within higher education institutions and explores their influence on fostering student subjectivity. To this end, an enhanced K-means clustering algorithm, augmented by a particle swarm optimization technique, is employed to process the data of college students, thereby facilitating the development of model branches in these institutions. Additionally, the initial warning feature matrix within the collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is applied to quantitatively assess student characteristic factors in the establishment of model branches, enabling the creation of an early warning system. The effect of model branch construction on the evolution of student subjectivity is subsequently analyzed through Gaussian process regression and partial least squares regression methods. The findings indicate that the extent of model branch development significantly impacts student subjectivity. Specifically, the average development level of student subjectivity in institutions with high-level model branches surpasses that in institutions lacking such structures by 17.255 points. Thus, the establishment of high-level model branches in colleges and universities emerges as a vital strategy to enhance student subjectivity and promote balanced and holistic student development.

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“Part of Their Chemistry”: The Reproduction of Neoliberal Governmentality in Principal and Teacher Subjectivities

Cited by 3 publications

References 68 publications

The Effects of School Choice Competition on an Underserved Neighborhood Public School

The Effects of School Choice Competition on an Underserved Neighborhood Public School

“We’re in compliance”: Reconciling teachers’ work as resistance to neoliberal policies

An empirical study on the construction of sample branches in colleges and universities in promoting the development of students’ subjectivity

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