Foucault News

Background

Editor (Clare O’Farrell): I have been running a network on the Ning platform since 2008 with the title of Poststructural Theory, but most of the activity on it is currently related to Foucault and Education, so I have re-purposed the network and re-titled it Foucault and Education. [Update 14 March 2026. This network is no longer in existence]

The Ning platform allows for the creation of custom social networks. Further information about how the Ning platform works can be found on the Wikipedia page. I have found Ning to provide a far more satisfactory interface for supporting effective work and research collaboration than platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or dedicated blogging platforms.

Details

Foucault and Education is an international network for students and researchers applying the work of Foucault to Education. It incorporates the Poststructural Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).

Anybody engaged in research and study applying the ideas of Michel Foucault to the discipline of education is welcome to join this network.

Members can create their own profile pages and ‘friend’ each other, form private interest, work and reading groups, post status updates and post to the main forum or to the small private group forums. They can also post blog entries and notices of events. The network can be used to post notices of publications, calls for papers as well as for discussion of any other topics of general interest relating to Foucault and education. Members can in addition post documents, photos and videos, which is useful for those wishing to form work or reading groups.

The network also includes members of the Poststructural Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) of the AARE (Australian Association for Research in Education).