Structural marginalisation, othering and casual relief teacher subjectivities

Title
Structural marginalisation, othering and casual relief teacher subjectivities
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Charteris, Jennifer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-6730
Email: jcharte5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jcharte5
Jenkins, Kathryn A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5936-1391
Email: kjenkins@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kjenkins
Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-5960
Email: mbannist@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mbannist
Jones, Marguerite A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9420-2495
Email: mjones46@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mjones46
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1080/17508487.2015.1108208
UNE publication id
une:19982
Abstract
Produced through market relations of neoliberal managerialism, teacher subjectivities are becoming progressively commodified. With the increasing casualisation of the teaching workforce, the well-being and status of casual relief teachers (CRTs) can be seen as an area of concern, at risk of 'flexploitation'. More than just a convenient labour pool, CRTs operate on the margins of school communities, a space fraught with a range of issues. In many instances, CRTs experience less job satisfaction; less rapport with students and colleagues and less access to school information, professional development, resources and teaching materials. This article draws on a positioning theory to frame the discursive production of CRT selves within the neoliberal milieu. It offers a detailed analysis of collective biographies that explore narrative formations of casual teaching. Schooling discourse is replete with metaphorical language that frames teacher positioning, and a range of existing metaphors in CRT literature highlight their vulnerability in particular. Rather than offering an analysis that addresses casual teacher performance as a problem to be solved, this article proposes that the relationship between 'structural marginalisation and the 'othering' that CRTs can experience is associated with the politics of market-related performativity.
Link
Citation
Critical Studies in Education, 58(1), p. 104-119
ISSN
1750-8495
1750-8487
Start page
104
End page
119

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