Performativity and affectivity: Lesson observations in England's Further Education colleges
TL;DR: The authors investigated the different expectations, relationships and identities of teachers and (mis)conceptions of "authenticity" in teaching and learning observations (TLO) and found that affective reactions to perceived managerial intrusion into their professional space had a negative impact on them and their students' learning.
Abstract: Teaching and learning observations (TLOs) are used in educational environments worldwide to measure and improve quality and support professional development. TLOs can be positive for teachers who enjoy opportunities to ‘perform’ their craft and/or engage in professional dialogue. However, if this crucial, collaborative developmental element is missing, a TLO becomes intrinsically evaluative in nature and creates complex emotions – within and beyond the classroom. For some teachers, affective reactions to perceived managerial intrusion into their professional space has a negative impact on them and, in turn, their students’ learning. International research on TLOs has focused on schools or universities. My research centres specifically on England’s Further Education colleges (FE). Through Interpretive Interactionism, I investigate the different expectations, relationships and identities of teachers and (mis)conceptions of ‘authenticity’ in TLOs. Teaching involves our unique (dis)embodied ‘performativity’ (...
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TL;DR: The Unschooled Mind (1991) as mentioned in this paper argues that schools, even when publicly acknowledged as successful, are failing at their most critical task-teaching for real understanding and that early-developed ideas, stereotypes, and "scripts" (descriptions of recurrent events) continueto dominate the thinking of even advanced teachers.
Abstract: Howard Gardner is well known to teachereducators,particularlyforhisearlier book,Frames ofMind: The Theory ofMuir tipleInteUigences(1983). Morerecently, the ConferenceonArtistic Intelligences (1989) and the development of Arts PROPEL havefamiliarized musicteacher educators even more specifically with Gardner's work. In The Unschooled Mind (1991), Gardnercontinues topricktheconsciences ofeducators by gettingdown to the very heartofthematter. Schools, hesays, do not nowteachthewaychildrenlearn, andoften what children learn before or outside of school is more powerful than competing information presented in school and can interferewithschool-delivered knowledge. Gardnercontendsin hisintroductory material that schools, even when publicly acknowledged as successful, are failing at their most critical task-teaching for real understanding. As always, Gardner provides examples that areabundantandtothe point. He offers evidence that early-developed ideas, stereotypes, and "scripts" (descriptions of recurrent events) continueto dominate the thinking of even advanced
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: This chapter discusses classroom observation in context, the use of quantitative and qualitative methods, and research into classrooms.
Abstract: List of figures Acknowledgements Preface 1. An Introduction to classroom observation 2. The use of quantitative methods 3. The use of qualitative methods 4. Classroom observation in context 5. Research into classrooms 6. Observation and action Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: The second edition surveys the recent changes that have taken place in psychoanalytic social theory, including critical theory, Lacanian and post-Lacanian theory, post-structuralism and feminism as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This text is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and the unconscious in understanding issues about the self and self-identity, ideology and power, sexual difference and gender. The second edition surveys the recent changes that have taken place in psychoanalytic social theory. Traditions of thought covered include critical theory, Lacanian and post-Lacanian theory, post-structuralism and feminism.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of feminist criticism and reinterpretations of psychoanalytic theory to consider anew the problem of domination, of individual development, gender difference and authority.
Abstract: Why do people submit to authority and even derive pleasure from the power others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why indeed do they continue to recapitulate the positions of master and slave? In "the Bonds of Love" the author makes use of feminist criticism and reinterpretations of psychoanalytic theory to consider anew the problem of domination, of individual development, gender difference and authority. In her questioning of gender polarities, in which woman is object to the male subject, she argues for a change which she describes as both "modest and utopian" - in disentangling the bonds of love, we seek a mutual recognition of equal subjects which would lead to both personal and social transformation.
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"Performativity and affectivity: Les..." refers background in this paper
...In view of this, in conclusion, I suggest that improving the effectiveness of TLOs may mean a deeper examination of the complex emotions involved in TLOs and a reflective sharing or ‘emotional intersubjectivity’ of these reflections between all participants (Benjamin, 1988; Denzin, 1984)....
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TL;DR: Introduction Resources and Inspirations Heuristic Concepts, Processes, and Validation Research Design and Methodology Examples of Heuristic Research Applications of heuristic Research
Abstract: Introduction Resources and Inspirations Heuristic Concepts, Processes, and Validation Research Design and Methodology Examples of Heuristic Research Applications of Heuristic Research
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed the existing literature on teachers' positive and negative emotions and proposed four areas for future research: management and discipline, adoption and use of teaching strategies, learning to teach, and teachers' motivation.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to review the limited literature on the emotional aspects of teachers' lives. First, a multicomponential perspective on emotions is described, then the existing literature on teachers' positive and negative emotions is reviewed and critiqued. Next is a summary of the literature suggesting that teachers' emotions influence teachers' and students' cognitions, motivation, and behaviors. Four areas for future research are proposed: management and discipline, adoption and use of teaching strategies, learning to teach, and teachers' motivation. An overview of research methods used in a multicomponential perspective on emotions is provided. This review draws on a variety of research literatures: educational psychology, social and personality psychology, educational sociology, and research on teachers and teaching.
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"Performativity and affectivity: Les..." refers background in this paper
...…existing research that suggests lecturers’ perceptions of their ‘genuine and authentic’ teaching, together with personal values and beliefs (something I call ‘personal ideology’, explained fully below), form a central motivation for many teachers (for example, see Sutton and Wheatley, 2003)....
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...Recording individuals’ stories, analysing these and putting the common and diverging themes at the centre of the research is argued as the most effective way of creating new meanings (Wolcott, 1994)....
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