In Case 1, sustained self-critique by the focal teacher led colleagues to attribute students' mathematics failure to parenting and parental lack of authority¶

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q2 i? After the focal teacher called himself a 'shitty teacher' and persisted in negative self-critique, the conversation evolved into a discussion of how students' parents lack authority. → Samantha A. Marshall 2025 q2 i? Deficit narratives about parenting functioned to cast teachers as doing the best they could and restore the emotional regime of positivity. → Samantha A. Marshall 2025

Evidence¶

Samantha A. Marshall 2025¶

Samantha A. Marshall, Grace A. Chen. (2025). Deficit narratives as teacher foils: how vulnerability and emotional regimes shape teacher discourse. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-025-09740-9

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Case 1 discourse analysis of a VFF debrief transcript at Haynes Middle School. Teachers attributed students' struggle to parenting, casting parents as lacking discipline; the authors code these turns as deficit narratives that absolved teachers and "cast the teacher in a better light and restore the emotional regime of positivity about teacher competence."

"In the first case at Haynes Middle School, after watching one clip that the focal teacher, Kurt, described as "really bad instruction," Kurt initially called himself a "shitty teacher," but the conversation later evolved into a discussion of how students' parents lack authority."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Deficit narratives are co-constructed in teacher collegial talk in response to teacher vulnerability under emotional regimes that disallow strong negative emotions
• In Case 2, persistent strong negative self-critique led teachers to assign deficit narratives to students as having missed opportunities, serving as foils for teachers — related
• Common threat-mitigation strategies preceded and failed to prevent deficit narratives, whose introduction followed the failure of mitigation to restore the emotional regime — related