Abstract The ethical project of education hinges on the ideal of caring relations between teachers and students, an ideal that entails deep emotional commitments on the part of teachers. Drawing on interview data from a larger study of teachers’ lived experiences in Singapore’s secondary schools, this paper examines the cultural politics of caring as an emotional practice in teaching. The ethic of care serves to construct normative accounts of good teaching based on “feeling rules,” and becomes a disciplinary technology for evaluating the professional, social and emotional competencies of teachers. I suggest that this project in turn entails an ideological effort to mobilize teachers’ emotional attachment to this ethical ideal. The ethic of care shapes the subjectivities, beliefs, and practices of English teachers, particularly as they circulate through the neoliberal imperatives of educational accountability regimes.

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关爱教学：探索新加坡英语教师的情感经济

摘要教育的伦理计划取决于师生之间关怀关系的理想，这种理想需要教师作出深切的情感承诺。本文通过对新加坡中学教师生活经历进行的一项较大研究得出的访谈数据，考察了关爱作为教学中的情感实践的文化政治。照顾伦理用于根据“感觉规则”构建良好教学的规范性说明，并成为评估教师的专业，社会和情感能力的学科技术。我建议，该项目反过来需要进行意识形态上的努力，以动员教师对这一道德理想的情感依恋。关怀伦理塑造了英语教师的主观性，信念和实践，