Turning to character: teachers’ narratives of youth futurity and educational responsibility
Mandich, Giuliana
2023-01-01
Abstract
In this article I connect two topics that are relevant to debates in educational studies today: an understanding of how educational discourses and practices convey and produce a definite kind of future, and the debate on what has been defined the ‘turn to character’. I do so by means of interviews with secondary school teachers in Sardinia (Italy), discussing how participants conveyed a discourse characterized by an individualized view of their students’ futures (residing mainly within their character) and a narrowly ‘institutionalized’ view of the responsibility of school in helping them to shape it. Both discourses allowed teachers to avoid taking on more of a direct, personal and caring sense of responsibility regarding their students’ futures. I argue that, in order to reinforce the role of education in empowering students’ capacity to aspire, a stronger anticipatory responsibility must be activated.File | Size | Format | |
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