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Individual Action Planning: A Case of Self-Surveillance?
- Source :
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British Journal of Sociology of Education . Feb 2004 25(1):81-94. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- The authors explore the Foucauldian concept of self-surveillance in the context of the use of Individual Action Planning (IAP) as a central process of a 1-year teacher training course. Drawing on work that examined whether IAP was experienced by student-teachers as empowerment or control, the article postulates that Action Planning can be seen as a central technique of a system of self-surveillance. The effect of IAPs in creating self-surveillance is investigated empirically, utilizing an original and non-Foucaldian pre-post questionnaire technique, in order to attract the widest possible audience to the idea of self-surveillance as a key process of governance in advanced liberal societies. The findings support the idea that self-surveillance is one of the outcomes of the IAP process, but also finds Foucauldian 'resistances' among the cohort investigated.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0142-5692
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ680444
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research