Becoming neoliberal policy subjects: Staff members' discursive practices about school climate in Chile

dc.contributor.authorWebb, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBecerra, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorSepulveda, Macarena
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:20:36Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:20:36Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractReforms to school climate policies in Chile have led to a marked shift away from punitive approaches for dealing with bullying behaviours, toward more educationally formative processes. Schools in this national context have also been given greater responsibilities for designing anti-bullying practices relevant to their own educational communities. Based on qualitative interviews with staff members in six inner-city schools in the Chilean capital we query whether these policies really enable staff to create positive school climates. We suggest instead that, from a Foucauldian perspective of governance, staff become self-regulated subjects caught between a celebration of administrative autonomy and the pressure to meet national standards of anti-bullying in underfunded and under-resourced schools in socially deprived areas. Rather than solve bullying, staff become more occupied with the doing of new public management. We conclude by suggesting ways in which the current policies could be adapted to better support schools working in these contexts.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17508487.2022.2139276
dc.identifier.eissn1750-8495
dc.identifier.issn1750-8487
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2022.2139276
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92586
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000876082100001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final300
dc.pagina.inicio283
dc.revistaCritical studies in education
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectSchool climate
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.subjecteducation policy
dc.subjectsocial deprivation
dc.subject.ods04 Quality Education
dc.subject.odspa04 Educación de calidad
dc.titleBecoming neoliberal policy subjects: Staff members' discursive practices about school climate in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen64
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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