ABSTRACT
Today, the teacher's soul is assembled with different social technologies of assessment and curriculum standards, visioning the qualities of the confessional. The technologies of prophecy are also a double gesture directed to the teacher's pastoral care of the child, her/his family and her/his community. Categories are placed in an organizational grid in which a continuum of teacher proficiency levels is linked to observable acts. The fabrication of teachers to point to an often overlooked quality of governing that interrelates the 'soul' of the child and teacher education, often phrased under the banner of professionalization. Rubrics are 'diagnostic' schemes, designed to standardize ratings to support self-reflection about progress towards particular objectives. The making of the citizen, however, was never merely about the political subject, but entailed discourses about modes of conduct that are assembled as distinct practices in contemporary reforms.
