Foucault News

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

Elizabeth Mary Grierson, Calling for change: A feminist approach to women in art, politics, philosophy and education (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (7), pp. 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1488215 Abstract Michel Foucault showed by his genealogical method that history is random. It comprises sites of disarray and dispersal. In those sites, Simone de Beauvoir wrote philosophy through …

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Gaus, N. Philosophy and politics in higher education: What are the roles of intellectual academics in Indonesian higher education? (2019) Qualitative Research Journal, 19 (3), pp. 294-306. DOI: 10.1108/QRJ-12-2018-0008 Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper, which is drawn on Indonesian academic women’s experiences, is to examine the extent to which the aesthetics of existence …

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Low, R. Mindfulness for teachers: notes toward a discursive cartography (2019) History of Education Review, 48 (1), pp. 91-108. DOI: 10.1108/HER-12-2018-0030 Abstract Purpose: For the interested teacher, teacher educator and educational researcher seeking an entry point into how mindfulness relates to teachers’ work, the burgeoning and divergent appeals for the relevance of mindfulness to teachers …

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McDonald, B., Burke, M. Coaching pedagogy and athlete autonomy with Japanese university rowers (2019) Sport in Society, 22 (8), pp. 1433-1448. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2019.1621842 Open access Abstract It has been suggested by some authors that, given the relationship between dependence and vulnerability to exploitation, a shift in coaching away from surveillance and control and towards autonomy-supportive …

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Alison Wrench, Framing citizenship: from assumptions to possibilities in health and physical education (2019) Sport, Education and Society, 24 (5), pp. 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2017.1403314 Abstract Within the Australian context physical education (PE) and more recently health and physical education (HPE) have long been ascribed utilitarian value for producing healthy citizens. Whilst this has not been a …

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Joshua S. Hanan, Subjects of Technology: An Auto-Archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Neoliberal Time(s) (2019) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 19 (2), pp. 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708618807264 Abstract This essay (re)presents my own experiences living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child and adult to provide a radically historical, contextual, and critical autoethnographic conceptualization of …

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Sam Sellar and Lew Zipin, Conjuring optimism in dark times: Education, affect and human capital (2019) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (6), pp. 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1485566 Abstract This paper analyses how the discursive construction, valuation and subjective experience of human capital is evolving in parallel with crises of capital as a world-system. Ideology critique provides tools …

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Stephen J Ball (2019). A horizon of freedom: Using Foucault to think differently about education and learning. Power and Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757743819838289 Abstract Building on the work of others, this article sketches out what a Foucauldian ‘education’ might look like in practice, considers some of the challenges, paradoxes and (im)possibilities with which such an ‘education’ would face …

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Rowe, E., Lubienski, C., Skourdoumbis, A., Gerrard, J., Hursh, D. Templates, typologies and typifications: neoliberalism as keyword (2019) Discourse, 40 (2), pp. 150-161. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1569875 Abstract Neoliberalism as a concept, ideology, or theoretical lens has emerged in the last couple of decades as a monolithic presence in education research, and the social sciences more broadly. …

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Valerie Harwood and Nyssa Murray, Strategic discourse production and parent involvement: including parent knowledge and practices in the Lead My Learning campaign (2019) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23 (4), pp. 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1571119 Abstract Parent involvement in a child’s education is usually viewed as integral for building educational participation. Critical work has examined the complexity …

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