Foucault News

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

Spicksley, K. Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation (2021) British Journal of Sociology of Education DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2021.2003183 Abstract This article reports findings from a small-scale research project which explored the professional identities of early career teachers working in primary academies in England. During interviews and focus groups, these new teachers resisted identifying as …

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Boyle, C. The (in)credible fiscal prize: A critical examination of the discourse of evidence in early childhood intervention (2021) Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood DOI: 10.1177/14639491211059164 Open access Abstract In playing with the concept of ‘credibility’, this article presents a critical examination of the discourse of evidence and the programming of upbringing in early intervention …

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Karnovsky, S., Gobby, B., O’Brien, P. A Foucauldian ethics of positivity in initial teacher education (2021) Educational Philosophy and Theory DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2021.2016390 Abstract This article explores ways pre-service teachers learn to work upon their positive emotional conduct during an initial teacher education course. The article argues that education practice today promotes the acting out of …

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A. Pitsikali & R. Parnell (2019) The public playground paradox: ‘child’s joy’ or heterotopia of fear?, Children’s Geographies, 17:6, 719-731, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2019.1605046 ABSTRACT Literature depicts children of the Global North withdrawing from public space to ‘acceptable islands’. Driven by fears both of and for children, the public playground – one such island – provides clear-cut …

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Stephen J. Ball & Emiliano Grimaldi (2021) Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2021.1963980 ABSTRACT This article explores some aspects of the relation between neoliberalisation and the increasing use of digital technologies in school classrooms. It does this in relation to a specific case – a specific school, classroom …

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Gunn, A. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis and Early Childhood Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Published online: 23 May 2019 Summary Formal early childhood education is a relatively modern institution to which increasing numbers of children are routinely exposed. Since the modern invention of childhood, the early childhood years have been increasingly established as a site …

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Garlen, J.C., Chang-Kredl, S., Farley, L., Sonu, D. Childhood innocence and experience: Memory, discourse and practice (2020) Children and Society. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12428 Abstract This article examines how childhood innocence is taken up in (92) memories of undergraduate students across four sites in the US and Canada. Drawing from Foucault’s theory of discourse, we examine how …

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Kingston, S. Parent involvement in education? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters (2021) Power and Education, 13 (2), pp. 58-72. DOI: 10.1177/17577438211011623 Abstract The Ontario Ministry of Education (2010) puts forth parent involvement as a solution for underachievement and as a resource for building better schools. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters reveals …

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Ball, S., Collet-Sabé, J. Against school: an epistemological critique (2021) Discourse DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1947780 Abstract The paper argues that the modern school is an ‘intolerable’ institution. 1 Contrary to the sensibilities of educational research that look for more and/or better schooling as a way of making education more equal and more inclusive, our position is against …

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