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Title: Fiscal Cuts in Education and Their Effects: Politicising Learned Helplessness as a Disciplinary Technology in Education Leaders in Catalonia. An Exploratory Research Study
Language: English
Authors: Collet-Sabé, Jordi (ORCID 0000-0001-8526-9997), Garcia-Molsosa, Marta (ORCID 0000-0001-7622-6813), Clarke, Matthew (ORCID 0000-0003-4693-248X), Haines Lyon, Charlotte (ORCID 0000-0001-8341-744X)
Source: Education Policy Analysis Archives. Nov 2022 30(159).
Availability: Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/epaa
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Retrenchment, Budgets, Educational Policy, Professional Identity, Instructional Leadership, Principals, COVID-19, Pandemics, Self Efficacy, Resistance (Psychology), Politics of Education, Outcomes of Education, Attitude Change, School Administration, Teacher Attitudes, Fatigue (Biology)
Geographic Terms: Spain
ISSN: 1068-2341
Abstract: The paper aims to explore how head teachers and other education service leaders and their teams have been experiencing shifts in their identities during the last decade of education cuts in Catalonia (Spain), and the possible effects during the current COVID-19 crisis on educational leaders. Our exploratory hypothesis covers the crisis years (2008-2015) and on into the nonrecovery years (2015-2020) until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these years, through what Ball (2008) describes as a "ratchet effect," education cuts and their everyday effects in schools produced learned helplessness (LH) in head teachers and leaders. Theoretically, we propose to examine this malaise from a political angle, seeing it as a disciplinary technology to transform education leaders' identity and practices. To corroborate this, we conducted four interviews with head teachers of different public primary, secondary, and special education schools, and a psychopedagogical service leader in the same semi-rural area in Catalonia. The exploratory results show that the incremental and selective cuts soon became a new normal and created feelings of (political) learned helplessness that may be seen not as negative side effects but as a disciplinary technology that reshaped leaders' subjectivity. At the same time, education leaders carried out some (ir)responsible practices of resistance that can be understood as care of the self and others. More research needs to be done with different agents to capture the complexity and ambiguity of cuts and LH as a political phenomenon.
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Entry Date: 2023
Accession Number: EJ1374216
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