Primary teachers, inspection and the silencing of the ethic of care / James Reid.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Front Cover; Primary Teachers, Inspection and the Silencing of the Ethic of Care; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Abbreviations; About the Author; Chapter 1 Developing Understanding of Teachers' Everyday Work During a Period of Inspection; 1.1. Kathryn's Poem: A Teacher's Experience of Teaching in the Panopticon; 1.2. Introduction; 1.3. Beginnings; 1.4. A Pen Picture of Crosstown Primary School; 1.4.1. The Teachers; 1.5. Dissatisfaction and the Inspection Regime; 1.6. Methodological Considerations; 1.6.1. Standpoint; 1.7. Reading the Book; 1.7.1. Reading for the Story Being Told

1.7.2. Reading for the Voice and Standpoint of the Teachers -- 'I' Poems1.7.3. Reading Three -- Reading for Textually Mediated Relationships; 1.7.4. Reading Four -- Placing People Within Cultural Contexts and Social Structures; 1.8. The Chapters; 1.8.1. Chapter 1: Developing Understanding of Teachers' Everyday Work During a Period of Inspection; 1.8.1.1. Kathryn's Poem Reveals a Teacher's Experience of Teaching in the Panopticon; 1.8.2. Chapter 2: The Story Being Told; 1.8.2.1. Norma's Poem Reveals Further the Story Being Told

1.8.3. Chapter 3: Care Is Political: Situating the 'Ethic of Care' in a Conceptual Framework1.8.3.1. Brenda's Poem Reveals that Teachers' Work and Their Experience of Care Is Political; 1.8.4. Chapter 4: Politics First: Ideological Abstraction, Assessing Pupils' Progress and Blame; 1.8.4.1. Marie's Poem Reveals the Ideological Abstraction of Teachers' Work; 1.8.5. Chapter 5: Personal and Professional Moral Boundaries, Asymmetry and Categorisation; 1.8.5.1. Charlie's Poem Reveals Personal and Professional Moral Boundaries

1.8.6. Chapter 6: Silencing Care: Achieving Fidelity to Regulatory Demands1.8.6.1. Lyn's Poem Reveals that Care Is Silenced in Achieving Fidelity to Regulatory Demands; 1.8.7. Chapter 7: Teachers' Experience and Understanding of Care; 1.8.7.1. Jennie's Poem Reveals a Concern About Trust; Chapter 2 The Story Being Told; 2.1. Norma's Poem Reveals Further the Story Being Told; 2.2. What's the Story Being Told?; 2.3. The Political Context; 2.3.1. Performativity and Inspection in English Primary Schools; 2.3.2. Political and Ideological Abstraction; 2.4. The Centrality of Texts; 2.5. Conclusion

Chapter 3 Care Is Political: Situating the 'Ethic of Care' in a Conceptual Framework3.1. Brenda's Poem Reveals that Teachers' Experience of Care Is Political; 3.2. Understanding Care; 3.3. The First Wave of Feminist Debates in Developing an Ethics of Care; 3.3.1. In a Different Voice; 3.3.1.1. Criticisms of Gilligan's Ethic of Care; 3.3.2. Through a 'Different Door'; 3.3.2.1. Criticisms of Noddings' Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education; 3.4. The Metaethic of the 'Expressive Collaborative Model'; 3.5. The Second Wave of Ethical Debates in Developing an Ethic of Care

This book offers aunique and critical explication of teachers' understanding and experience ofcare during a period of regulatory scrutiny and 'notice to improve'. Written following research in a primary schoolin the north of England, it draws on the findings of an institutional ethnography to reveal the mediation of the teachers' everyday work.

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