Producing the docile body: analysing Local Area Under-performance Inspection (LAUI)

Clapham, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-5066-134X, 2014. Producing the docile body: analysing Local Area Under-performance Inspection (LAUI). Cambridge Journal of Education, 45 (2), pp. 265-280. ISSN 1469-3577

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Abstract

Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of the Office for Standards in Education (OfSTED), declared a 'new wave' of Local Area Under-performance Inspections (LAUI) of schools 'denying children the standard of education they deserve'. This paper examines how the threat of LAUI played out over three mathematics lessons taught by a teacher in her first year in the profession. A Foucauldian approach is mobilised with regard to disciplinary power and 'docile bodies'. The paper argues that, in the case in point, LAUI was a tool mediating performative conditions and, ultimately, the docile body. The paper will be of concern to policy sociologists, teachers, school leaders, and those interested in school inspection.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Cambridge Journal of Education
Creators:	Clapham, A.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	2014
Volume:	45
Number:	2
ISSN:	1469-3577
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/0305764X.2014.955837 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Education
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 11:03
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:47
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22039

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