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Infrastructure and Pedagogy: A Comprehensive Exploration of Physical–Institutional Environments, Theoretical Foundations, and Their Impact on Teacher Morale and Performance

Author(s) Dr. Jagdeep Shira Singh
Country India
Abstract Schools do more than host teaching; they teach in their own right. The physical and institutional infrastructures of educational systems create a silent curriculum that shapes how teachers think, feel, and enact their work. This study advances the idea of infrastructure as pedagogy, positioning material spaces and organisational structures not as neutral supports but as active pedagogical forces. Drawing on environmental psychology, sociomaterial theory, and organisational climate research, the study examines how infrastructural conditions influence teacher morale and professional performance in contemporary Indian schools.
A mixed-method design was employed, involving 300 teachers from government and private institutions across five states. Standardised morale and climate scales, spatial audits, and semi-structured interviews provided a comprehensive dataset. Structural equation modelling revealed strong associations between physical adequacy, institutional clarity, administrative responsiveness, and teachers’ affective commitment. Qualitative accounts further illuminated how spatial aesthetics, digital infrastructure, and institutional trust shaped emotional engagement, professional identity, and pedagogical adaptability.
The findings demonstrate that infrastructure—material and bureaucratic—functions as a pedagogical agent that organises experience, structures agency, and configures the emotional architecture of schooling. Effective educational reform, therefore, requires moving beyond material provisioning toward designing environments that sustain well-being, dignity, and collaborative capacity. By reframing infrastructure as a living pedagogy, this study calls for a reorientation of governance priorities: from building schools to cultivating meaningful institutional worlds within them.
Keywords Infrastructure, Teacher Morale, Institutional Climate, Sociomateriality, Professional Identity, Pedagogical Performance, Educational Governance
Field Arts
Published In Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-12-05
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2304
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbdssc
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