ABSTRACT
Education institutions are dominated by time, and the need to control the working time of staff and students. Forms of performance management recondition educational labor, but they also force the worker to internalize the metrics and measurements of the institution and the sector as a terrain of control. In this way, explicit and implicit forms of managerialism act on the bodies and minds of the worker and the student, reinforcing alienation and a lack of self-care. Such processes are accelerated where institutions are seeking our new forms of value or entrepreneurialism, or where outside, private interests seek rents from those institutions. In pushing back against such internalized alienation, education workers and students might look for forms of social solidarity and organization that refuse performativity and inhumane governance. Such solidarity needs to emerge both inside and outside of the institution.
