ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up what might initially seem pedestrian topics: student lateness and absence. However, though perhaps considered a minor aspect of pedagogy, attendance is explored as a source of teachers' emotion labor involving the presence or absence of bodies in classrooms. The chapter begins with the literature review followed by analysis of the interview data. The literature review includes three parts: regulation of attendance, subdivided into teachers as managers and students as self-managers; theorizing bodies in classrooms, subdivided into acknowledging the presence of teachers' bodies and significance of students' absent bodies; and materialities of absence, focused on technologies of attendance monitoring. The discourses uncovered in the part of the interviews related to attendance includes: discourse of resistance, discourse of relationality, discourse of student self-regulation, discourse of emotional in-filling, discourse of teacher's embodied performance, and discourse of students' embodied performance.
