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Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption

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Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption

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This study examines how teachers enact and adjust their professional roles in the everyday spaces of school life. The study was framed through Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective and related literature on teacher professionalism, school space, and emotional labour. An interpretive qualitative design informed by constructivist grounded theory coding procedures was adopted. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 teachers working in one public primary school and one public Anatolian high school in Ankara. The analysis showed that teacher performance extended beyond classroom instruction and was continually reshaped in classrooms, corridors, staff rooms, schoolyards, subject rooms, and digital communication spaces. Teachers moved between front-stage visibility and backstage role distance while maintaining credibility through dramaturgical loyalty, discipline, and circumspection. The findings also indicated that teachers in the primary-school case experienced a more continuous and affectively charged visibility, while teachers in the high-school case described clearer moments of role distance. Based on these findings, the study offers a dramaturgical account of teacher professionalism as an interactional, emotional, and spatial practice shaped between institutional continuity and subjective disruption.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Teacher performance, dramaturgical perspective, everyday school life, impression management, qualitative research

Destekleyen Kurum

The author did not receive any financial support, grant, or institutional funding for this research or its publication.

Etik Beyan

Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Gazi University Rectorate Ethics Commission before data collection. The study was approved at the meeting dated March 3, 2026, Session No. 04, with Research Code 2026-449 and Document No. E-77082166-604.01-1490327. All participants provided voluntary written informed consent. Personal, institutional, and regional identifiers were removed from the transcripts to protect participant confidentiality.

Teşekkür

The author thanks the teachers who voluntarily participated in the study and shared their experiences of everyday school life.

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Dağ, S. (2026). Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption. OPUS Journal of Society Research, 23(2026), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1999548
AMA
1.Dağ S. Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption. OPUS TAD. 2026;23(2026):1-19. doi:10.26466/opusjsr.1999548
Chicago
Dağ, Sinan. 2026. “Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption”. OPUS Journal of Society Research 23 (2026): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1999548.
EndNote
Dağ S (01 Ekim 2026) Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption. OPUS Journal of Society Research 23 2026 1–19.
IEEE
[1]S. Dağ, “Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption”, OPUS TAD, c. 23, sy 2026, ss. 1–19, Eki. 2026, doi: 10.26466/opusjsr.1999548.
ISNAD
Dağ, Sinan. “Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption”. OPUS Journal of Society Research 23/2026 (01 Ekim 2026): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1999548.
JAMA
1.Dağ S. Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption. OPUS TAD. 2026;23:1–19.
MLA
Dağ, Sinan. “Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption”. OPUS Journal of Society Research, c. 23, sy 2026, Ekim 2026, ss. 1-19, doi:10.26466/opusjsr.1999548.
Vancouver
1.Sinan Dağ. Everyday teacher performances in school life: A dramaturgical account of continuity and disruption. OPUS TAD. 01 Ekim 2026;23(2026):1-19. doi:10.26466/opusjsr.1999548