Editor: To provide extra material for my Master of Education coursework students, I will be posting up quite a bit of material in the education area over the next month. These posts will be scheduled at a different time of day from other posts. The Foucault and education posts will all be tagged in the …
Waslander, S., Hooge, E., Drewes, T. Steering Dynamics in the Dutch Education System (2016) European Journal of Education, 51 (4), pp. 478-494. DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12188 Abstract Based on detailed empirical analyses, we paint a layered picture of emerging steering dynamics. Inspired by Foucault, we put the focus on roles stakeholders define both for themselves and others, …
Wendy Brown, In the account of Neoliberalism. 2016 European Graduate School Video Lectures Published on Jan 25, 2017 http://www.egs.edu Wendy Brown, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee Switzerland. August 13 2016. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Her research interests include the history …
Bori, P., Petanović, J. Constructing the entrepreneurial-self: How Catalan textbooks present the neoliberal worker to their students (2016) Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14 (3), pp. 154-174. Full PDF Abstract Since the year 2000 and the massive arrival of immigrants to the Spanish region of Catalonia, the Catalan language has vastly augmented its number …
A Foucauldian Take on Border Violence and Mediterranean Acts of Escape, Maurice Stierl, 04/25/16 Audio of lecture Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society, Townsend Center for the Humanities: Course Thread on Law and the Humanities, and the Institute of European Studies. The unauthorized mass-movements of 2015, when more than a …
Nussbaum, A.M. “I am the Author and Must Take Full Responsibility”: Abraham Verghese, Physicians as the Storytellers of the Body, and the Renewal of Medicine (2016) Journal of Medical Humanities, 37 (4), pp. 389-399. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-014-9312-6 Abstract Abraham Verghese proposes to renew medicine by training physicians to read the right texts—literary fiction and patients’ bodies—with …
Andrew Wilkins, Rescaling the local: multi-academy trusts, private monopoly and statecraft in England, Journal Of Educational Administration And History, Published online: 01 Feb 2017 10.1080/00220620.2017.1284769 Abstract For the past six years successive UK governments in England have introduced reforms intended to usher in less aggregated, top-down, bureaucratically overloaded models of service delivery. Yet the ‘hollowing …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Predicación, verdad y sujeto colonial: genealogías de la obediencia en contexto mapuche, Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación N.º 132, agosto -noviembre 2016 (Sección Ensayo, pp. 245-260) Texto completo Resumen El presente texto examina las formas de predicación jesuita, contenidas en el esquema de subjetividad cristiana, y que entran en juego con las estrategias …
Patricio Lepe-Carrión, Intercultural Education in Chile: Colonial Subjectivity and Ethno-Governmental Rationality, SISYPHUS Journal of Education volume 3, issue 3, 2015, pp. 60-87 Full PDF Abstract This article is the product of research conducted in the frame of FONDECYT Research Initiation project nº 11140804, entitled “Education and Cultural Racism: Evidence and Discursivities in Agents Who Implement …
Announcing the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs In December 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a three-and-a-half year, $1,525,000 grant to the University of California, Berkeley and $1,020,000 to Northwestern University to establish the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP). The task of this international consortium is to document, connect, and support …
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