The 'good' teacher in a neo-liberal risk society: a Foucaultian analysis of professional growth plans
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study uses Foucault's concept of pastoral power to explore the role of professional growth plans in the constitution of teachers' knowledge, identities, and practice. It examines the production of particular norms of the 'good' teacher internalized and self-regulated through the technologies of self deployed through such plans. These norms embed values of individualism, technicism, reflexivity and 'enterprising self, supporting a neo-liberal ethos in contemporary risk society. It draws evidence from a qualitative study of teachers and principals in Alberta, Canada, implementing a provincial initiative for mandatory growth plans. Such growth plans normalize the 'fact of growth' and align teacher growth to district interests, naturalize consent to surveillance and confession, encourage teachers to internalize goal-oriented practice, reflectivity and self-regulation, and technicize teacher knowledge.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it