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News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Paul Sutton, Lost souls? The demoralization of academic labour in the measured university, Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 36 , Iss. 3,2017 DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1289365 ABSTRACT In this conceptual paper, I contend that the soul of academic labour is becoming lost in performativity. Performativity, I explain, is a form of regulation and control that deploys …

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Stephen J Ball, Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast, Policy Futures in education, Volume: 14 issue: 8, page(s): 1046-1059 Article first published online: August 23, 2016;Issue published: November 1, 2016 DOI: 10.1177/1478210316664259 Abstract A major aim of this paper is to draw attention to the insidious manner in which the deficit discourse and practices associated …

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Parrhesía y estética de la existencia, Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos, Núm. 2 (2017) DORSAL ISSN 0719-7519 es una Revista digital publicada por CENALTES Ediciones con acceso abierto a su contenido, de periodicidad semestral y editada por la Red Iberoamericana Foucault. En ella se publican artículos de investigación procedentes de distintas disciplinas científicas que utilicen …

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O’Brien, Peter C. (2017). The adaptive professional: Teachers, school leaders and ethical-governmental practices of (self-) formation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, Pages 1-15 | Published online: 16 Jun 2017 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1339585 Abstract This article analyses the relations that teachers and school leaders establish with themselves and with others—especially those who would seek to govern them—through the …

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III Coloquio Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Teoría Poscolonial Facultad de Humanidades y Artes Universidad Nacional de Rosario 27, 28 y 29 septiembre de 2017 Condicion (Pos)Colonial y Racialización Temporalidades, Conceptos y Problematizaciones 2ª Circular PDF En el ámbito latinoamericano, lo racial ha sido una marca constante en los procesos imaginarios y en los …

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J. Moreno Pestaña, Foucault, Bourdieu et la sociologie de la philosophie. À propos de Leçons sur la volonté de savoir Texte en cours de publication dans Cartografie sociali. Rivista di sociologia e scienze umane, Anno II, n. 2, novembre 2017. Academia.edu link ABSTRACT In this text, I analyze the model of history of philosophy proposed …

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Liz Kirwan* and Kathy Hall, The mathematics problem: the construction of a market-led education discourse in the Republic of Ireland, Critical Studies in Education, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2016, 376–393. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1102752 Educational change in the neoliberal state is permeated by the effects of forces from outside the field of education itself. The process of …

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