1st Edition

Teacher Retention in an Age of Performative Accountability Target Culture and the Discourse of Disappointment

By Jane Perryman Copyright 2022
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

In this insightful and timely volume, Jane Perryman provides a definitive analysis of the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention through a critique of the culture of performative accountability in education, bringing together theory, literature, and empirical data. Drawing on data across several long-term research projects and through a Foucauldian theoretical framework, Perryman... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1. The intensification of accountability

Chapter 2. Performativity, governmentality and the teacher self

Chapter 3. Performative-accountability: the case of inspection

Chapter 4. The emotions of teaching

Chapter 5. A crisis in retention

Chapter 6. Conclusion – Time for a change?

Biography

Jane Perryman is Professor of Sociology of Education at the IOE, University College London, United Kingdom.