Post-secular affective labours of teaching: contemplative practices and the ‘belaboured self’
Critical Studies in Education February 24, 2022 Christopher T. Mccaw, J. Gerrard 4 citations
ABSTRACT This paper examines the complex interweaving of the ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ in the affective labour of teachers. In line with theorisations of affective labour, contemporary school-teaching involves practices of self-work and self-making, as much as practices of curriculum and pedagogy. One emergent form of self-work, reflective of post-secular socio-cultural movements in...