Paatela-Nieminen, M., Itkonen, T., Talib, M.-T. Reconstructing Imagined Finnishness: The Case of Art Education through the Concept of Place (2016) International Journal of Art and Design Education, 35 (2), pp. 229-242. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12057 Abstract This multidisciplinary article presents a methodology, a research project and selected outcomes from an environmental art education course for teacher students. …
Sonu, D., Benson, J. The quasi-human child: How normative conceptions of childhood enabled neoliberal school reform in the United States (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 230-247. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168259 Abstract This paper argues that normative conceptions of the child, as a natural quasi-human being in need of guidance, enable current school reforms in the United …
Podcast Bryan Cooke and Mark Kelly discuss Foucault, biopolitics, modernity, the role of the intellectual in politics, and Foucault, March 18, 2016
Damien Page, The surveillance of teachers and the simulation of teaching, Journal Of Education Policy Vol. 32 , Iss. 1, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1209566 Full text Abstract Just as surveillance in general has become more sophisticated, penetrative and ubiquitous, so has the surveillance of teachers. Enacted through an assemblage of strategies such as learning walks, parental networks, …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, El contrato colonial de Chile, Sciencia, racismo, nación Abya Yala, 2016 PDF cover and table of contents En los orígenes de la nación chilena se ocultan una serie de elementos raciales que pueden remontarse a muchos años antes de su establecimiento formal como institución política. Las ideas de “raza” y “racismo” son el …
Bazzul, J. The ‘subject of ethics’ and educational research OR Ethics or politics? Yes please! (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-11. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1270184 Abstract This paper outlines a theoretical context for research into ‘the subject of ethics’ in terms of how students come to see themselves as self-reflective actors. I maintain …
Chang-Kredl, S., Wilkie, G. What is it like to be a child? Childhood subjectivity and teacher memories as heterotopia (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 308-320. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168262 Abstract Foucault’s notion of heterotopia offers a novel way to understand teachers’ conceptualizations of childhood, in juxtaposing adult memories of childhood with their present context of teaching …
Hull, G. Equitable relief as a relay between juridical and biopower: the case of school desegregation (2016) Continental Philosophy Review, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11007-016-9372-6 Abstract The present paper looks at the intersection of juridical and biopower in the U.S. Supreme Court’s school desegregation cases. These cases generally deploy “equitable relief” as a …
Ragab, A. Monsters and patients: An archaeology of medicine, islam, and modernity (2016) History and Theory, 55 (4), pp. 112-130. DOI: 10.1111/hith.10832 Abstract Foucault’s analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters …
Fejes, A. The confessing academic and living the present otherwise: Appraisal interviews and logbooks in academia (2016) European Educational Research Journal, 15 (4), pp. 395-409. DOI: 10.1177/1474904116636637 Abstract In this paper, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, I argue that academics are enmeshed in power relations in which confession operates, both on and through …
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