Eric Wilson, Precarious Politics, The Blackstone Review, December 2016 Review of State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey, Verso, 2015 […] Using Foucault’s notion of self-governance, Lorey helps to demonstrate how the hustler internalizes the imperative to hustle. Self-governance implies the ways in which a population is made, through a variety of …
Saari, A. Knowledge Without Contexts? A Foucauldian Analysis of E.L. Thorndike’s Positivist Educational Research (2016) Studies in Philosophy and Education, 35 (6), pp. 589-603. DOI: 10.1007/s11217-016-9527-2 Abstract The article discusses the allegedly decontextualized and ahistorical traits in positivist educational research and curriculum by examining its emergence in early twentieth-century empirical education. Edward Lee Thorndike’s educational …
Kenneth C. Werbin, The List Serves: Population Control and Power, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017 See also this link Preface by: Geert Lovink. Edited By: Miriam Rasch. Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Leonieke van Dipten. EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten. Printer: Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017. ISBN: 978-94-92302-15-1, …
Charteris, J., Jones, M., Nye, A., Reyes, V. A heterotopology of the academy: mapping assemblages as possibilised heterotopias (2016) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1250178 Abstract Heterotopias are counter-sites of enacted utopias through which reality is simultaneously represented, contested and inverted. They are physical or mental spaces …
Wieser, C. Teaching and personal educational knowledge–conceptual considerations for research on knowledge transformation (2016) European Journal of Teacher Education, 39 (5), pp. 588-601. DOI: 10.1080/02619768.2016.1253673 Abstract Teacher knowledge is currently explored in three major research paradigms. This paper reviews how teaching and personal educational knowledge are related in these three paradigms, namely: the evidence paradigm, …
Nicholas Henck, Insurgent Marcos: The Political-Philosophical Formation of the Zapatista Subcommander, Editorial A Contracorriente (January 9, 2017) Publisher’s page Amazon page For over two decades now Subcommander Marcos has acted as military leader and spokesperson of Mexico’s Zapatista movement. In the process of doing so he has also become a key figure in the anti-capitalist …
Farrell, F., Duckworth, V., Reece, M., Rigby, P. The moral frontiers of English education policy: governmentality and ethics within an alternative provision free school (2016) Educational Review, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2016.1223018 Abstract This article is a critical poststructuralist analysis of Conservative led free school policy in England focussing on claims made by …
Teófilo Espada-Brignoni and Frances Ruiz-Alfaro, Political Repertoires: Tellability and Subjectivation in Music as a Platform for Political Communication,Uche Onyebadi (ed.) IGI Global, 2017 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1986-7.ch003 Abstract Songwriting, whether creative or unoriginal, can challenge or promote the values of the dominant discourses in a particular society. Within the context of popular music, Gil Scott-Heron wrote songs …
Ball, Stephen J., Foucault as Educator, SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education, 2017 PDF flyer First concise volume adressing together Foucault’s references to the field of education Discusses Foucault’s perspective on the relations of power that are inextricably embedded in the pedagogical processes Describes Foucault’s genealogical method as a form of education This book considers …
Christensen, G. Genealogy and educational research (2016) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29 (6), pp. 763-776. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1162871 Abstract The aim of this paper was to demonstrate how genealogy can be used as a method for critical education research. As Foucault emphasized, genealogy is a method for identifying the way in which the …
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