This book offers a unique and critical explication of teachers' understanding and experience of care during a period of regulatory scrutiny and 'notice to improve'. Written followingresearch in a primary school in the north of England, it draws on the findingsof an institutional ethnography to reveal the institutional mediation ofthe teachers' everyday work. Written from a critical interpretivist standpoint,the focus moves away from care as essentialist practice by foregrounding theteachers' talk, through 'I' poems, to explicate the political mediation ofcare. Care is understood,experienced and operates in a social milieu. It is not fixed and, importantly, isnot understood as a practice or an emotional exchange between one person and another. In this book, Joan Tronto's (1993) argument for a 'political ethic of care' isutilised as a conceptual framework for understanding teachers' experiences.It is an alternative to approaches that individualise a teacher's caringpractices as only belonging in the intimate, proximal domains of care givingand care receiving.
Chapter 1: Developing Understanding of Teachers' Everyday
Work During a Period of Inspection Chapter 2: The Story Being Told
Chapter 3: Care is Political: Situating
the 'Ethic of Care' in a Conceptual Framework
Chapter 4: Politics First: Ideological
Abstraction, Assessing Pupils' Progress and Blame
Chapter 5: Personal and Professional
Moral Boundaries, Asymmetry and Categorisation
Chapter 6: Silencing Care: Achieving
Fidelity to Regulatory Demands
Chapter 7: Teachers' Experience and
Understanding of Care
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