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Post-Secular Affective Labours of Teaching: Contemplative Practices and the 'Belaboured Self'
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McCaw, Christopher T.; Gerrard, Jessica – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
This paper examines the complex interweaving of the 'personal' and 'professional' in the affective labour of teachers. In line with theorisations of affective labour, contemporary school-teaching involves practices of self-work and self-making, as much as practices of curriculum and pedagogy. One emergent form of self-work, reflective of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professional Identity, Stress Management, Metacognition
School as a Site of Transformative Adult Learning: Parents' Experiences of Polish Democratic Schools
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Gawlicz, Katarzyna – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
This paper aims to explore transformative learning processes of parents involved in informal, parent-established democratic schools, which are novel educational initiatives in Poland. The author argues that the distinctive educational ideology and the practice of such schools expose parents to new understandings of education, the child and the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Parent Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Social Change
Precarious Success and the Conspiracy of Reflexivity: Questioning the 'Habitus Transformation' of Working-Class Students at Elite Universities
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Jin, Jin; Ball, Stephen J. – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
Some authors argue that access to elite universities can bring about a 'habitus transformation' for working-class students, however in this paper, based on a three-year life history study, it is suggested that the transformative effects of the elite university experience come about in relation to and constrained by the working-class habitus.…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Working Class, Selective Admission
Embodiment and Becoming in Secondary Drama Classrooms: The Effects of Neoliberal Education Cultures on Performances of Self and of Drama Texts
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Lambert, Kirsten; Wright, Peter; Currie, Jan; Pascoe, Robin – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary school drama classrooms. We consider the ways Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis and Butler's concept of gender performance enable us to chart the embodied, relational, spatial and affective energies that inhabit the often neoliberal and…
Descriptors: Drama, Neoliberalism, Criticism, Teaching Methods
Beyond Cultural Competence: Transforming Teacher Professional Learning through Aboriginal Community-Controlled Cultural Immersion
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Burgess, Cathie – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This paper problematises the concept of cultural competence in teacher professional learning arguing instead for opportunities to develop critical reflexivity in the ongoing construction of a pedagogical cultural identity. In the Aboriginal context within Australia, this research study demonstrates how attaining cultural knowledge, understandings…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Faculty Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
A Holistic, Self-Reflective Perspective on Victimization within Higher Education in Sweden
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Friberg, Torbjörn – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
In the light of some recent transformations in higher education, a moral governance of university teachers is starting to emerge, suggesting a decrease of professional autonomy. By drawing on the idea of Gilles Deleuze's "clinical analysis", the aim of this article is to re-problematize the increasingly common moral image of students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Victims of Crime