Conspicuous practice: self-surveillance and commodification in English education

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dc.contributor.authorPage, Damien
dc.date.accepted2017-07-03
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-13T08:35:50Z
dc.date.available2021-09-13T08:35:50Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-23
dc.date.updated2021-09-08T09:54:53Z
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Studies in Sociology of Education, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1351309 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractTeachers in England have always been watched; only more recently have they been surveilled, with senior leaders, peers, students and stakeholders all collecting performance data. Yet surveillance in schools and colleges increasingly relies on watching the self, with teachers voluntarily participating in their own surveillance, making their practice visible for easy consumption by interested parties. This article builds on previous work on the surveillance of teachers to argue that this ‘conspicuous practice’ represents a convergence of surveillance and consumerism, with teachers being recreated as commodities and their own marketing agent, embodying the entrepreneurial self to maximise employability. Through social media such as Twitter and LinkedIn to exploiting open plan learning spaces, teachers engage in conspicuous practice for three main reasons: from fear, to avoid sanction; as a result of acculturation into commodified environments; as a means of routine resistance, employing the dramaturgical self for personal gain, to avoid work or re-appropriate professionalism.en
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dc.identifier.citationPage, D. (2017) Conspicuous practice: self-surveillance and commodification in education. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27 (4). pp. 375-390. ISSN 0962-0214 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2017.1351309en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09620214.2017.1351309en
dc.identifier.eissn1747-5066
dc.identifier.issn0962-0214en
dc.identifier.journalInternational Studies in Sociology of Educationen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/624336
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09620214.2017.1351309en
dc.source.beginpage375
dc.source.endpage390
dc.source.issue4
dc.source.volume27
dc.subjectconspicuous practiceen
dc.subjectsurveillance of teachersen
dc.subjectperformance managementen
dc.subjectcommodificationen
dc.subjectconsumerismen
dc.titleConspicuous practice: self-surveillance and commodification in English educationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
refterms.dateFCD2021-09-13T08:32:25Z
refterms.dateFOA2021-09-13T08:35:51Z
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rioxxterms.funderLeeds Beckett Universityen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW13092021DPen
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-09-13en
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.versionAMen
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