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Cruel Optimism, Precarity, and the Explosion of Short-Term Teaching Contracts in Australian Schools
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Bush, Timothy Mark – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper will consider how short-term contracts function as a technology for governing a new generation of teachers in Australia. It will proceed from Foucault's understanding that neoliberal modes of power seek to 'guide' or shape the conduct of the governed. In particular, the paper will consider how the short-term contracts implicate…
Descriptors: Job Security, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Foreign Countries
"Governing the Contracted Subject": Early-Career Teachers and Short-Term Contracts in Australia
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Bush, Timothy Mark – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
In 2014 "almost 80% of all government school teachers in Australia in their first 5 years of their teaching careers were on short-term contracts." This paper will consider how the short-term contract governs early career teachers in Australia, and more broadly, how neo-liberal governance works on and through institutions and individuals.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Contracts, Foreign Countries, Governance