Panopticism, teacher surveillance and the ‘unseen’

This paper seeks to contribute the understanding of ‘panopticon’ in educational research, problematising its validity and offering a fresh conceptualisation teacher surveillance. The school as is well-established concept which helpfully enables consideration aspects high-stakes accountability. present explores question how contemporary teachers perceive themselves be subject scrutiny consequences this It argued that whilst panopticon (and variants) remain very valid notions for performativity schools, complementary metaphor can offered fuller ‘unseen’ behaviours induced by high accountability environment.