Teachers under evaluation: the imaginaries of power and fear in Colombian education (English version)
Keywords:
teaching profession, teacher evaluation, power, social imaginaries, dignity, pedagogical resistance, Colombian education, Paulo FreireSynopsis
Teachers Under Evaluation: The imaginaries of Power and Fear in Colombian Education is a work that delves, with theoretical depth and a testimonial voice, into the symbolic fabric that sustains the teaching profession in the country. Through a style that blends academic reflection with pedagogical narrative, the author explores how power, evaluation, and fear intertwine within the everyday experience of Colombian teaching.
From a critical and humanistic approach, the author analyzes the evolution of the national education system based on statutes 2277 and 1278, showing how evaluation policies, under the language of “quality” and “merit”, have reshaped the imaginaries of the teaching profession. In these pages, the teacher does not appear as a passive victim of reforms, but as a historical subject who resists, creates, and reimagines their practice through hope.
The text brings together theory and experience with academic precision, drawing on thinkers such as Foucault, Bourdieu, Freire, Castoriadis, Dubet, Bauman, Popkewitz and Covarrubias, among others. Through these dialogues, the author offers an interpretation of the teaching profession as a field of forces, where symbolic capital, ethical meanings and political horizons are contested.
Each chapter constitutes a distinct — and complementary — approach to the imaginaries that shape teaching: merit, vocation, control, dignity, and resistance. With a clear and poetic language, the author reveals that pedagogy not only teaches content, but also ways of being and existing in the world. In these pages, hope is not presented as consolation, but as a political practice; and evaluation, not as punishment, but as an opportunity for dialogue.
Teachers under evaluation is an invitation to rethink the school as a space of meaning, not of obedience; as a territory of care, not of surveillance. An indispensable work for those who believe that education remains an act of faith, and justice.
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Published
November 27, 2025
Copyright (c) 2025 Edwin Tovar Briñez (Author); Edwin Tovar Briñez (Chapter Author)
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978-9915-9680-5-6
How to Cite
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Tovar Briñez E. Teachers under evaluation: the imaginaries of power and fear in Colombian education (English version) [Internet]. AG Editor; 2025 [cited 2025 Dec. 8]. Available from: https://books.ageditor.org/index.php/books/catalog/book/978-9915-9680-5-6
