ScholarOne - The future-perfect of teacher surveillance: biometrics,
artificial intelligence and complicity
Abstract
With risk positioned as a central educational imperative within
education policy at a national and institutional level, the surveillance
of teachers has proliferated, becoming embedded in the very fabric of
schools, enacted through architecture, cultures and, especially,
technology. With a growing rapidity since the pandemic, teaching has
increasingly exploited technological advancement, particularly AI and
biometrics, as a means of augmenting pedagogy and manging bureaucracy.
However, recent developments in classroom technology also allow a
greater surveillance of teachers, technology that allows surveillance to
move from observing to sensing that can more completely and accurately
predict future performance. This article traces the liquidity of private
sector surveillance into classroom applications, presenting a model of
the surveillant classroom across three actions: measurement, modelling
and simulation before concluding with a consideration of the complicity
embedded within the future-perfect of teacher surveillance.