ERIC Number: EJ1366751
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Mar
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1476-718X
EISSN: EISSN-1741-2927
Instructing the Neoliberal Student on the Conduct of School: A Case Study of a Schoolwide Positive Behavior System in Kindergarten
Brown, Christopher P.; Englehardt, Joanna; Ku, Da Hei
Journal of Early Childhood Research, v21 n1 p91-105 Mar 2023
Schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports continue to be employed in elementary school settings that children attend across the globe. Such neoliberal systems of conduct teach children how to portray themselves as students so that they are ready to succeed in school and the larger society. For the most part, these systems are framed as successful behavior interventions. As a result, how such programs impact school personnel and students' own conceptions of what it means to be a student is rarely troubled. Thus, through examining a case study of schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports in a kindergarten classroom in the United States, we investigated this issue. Specifically, we employed Foucault's conceptions of neoliberalism and biopolitics to examine how a sample of school personnel and kindergarteners made sense of their schoolwide positive behavior system. Doing so provided us with the opportunity to rethink and challenge these neoliberal systems of control.
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Neoliberalism, Kindergarten, School Personnel, Politics of Education, At Risk Students, Discipline, Program Effectiveness, Student Behavior, Preschool Teachers, Principals, Preschool Children, Self Control
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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