Xenofontos, C. (2025). Mathematical heterotopias: lessons from other-ed spaces for the mainstream classroom. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2508715 ABSTRACT Many mathematics classrooms worldwide often adhere to rigid, traditional practices that may serve some students effectively but risk disengaging others. In this paper, I draw on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to introduce the notion …
Variyan, G., McKnight, L., & Charles, C. (2025). The subterranean masculinities of elite private boys’ schools. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 57(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2447534 ABSTRACT The #metoo movement has led to countless revelations of sexual misconduct across the globe. Schools have not been immune from such allegations and elite private boys’ schools in particular …
Birtles, M. (2024). World-class education for the few: Analysing Japan’s designated national university corporation system policy discourse. Policy Futures in Education, 23(3), 582-603. https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103241287276 (Original work published 2025) Abstract This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan’s Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames …
Andrew, M. (2024). Neoliberalism and the Crisis in Higher Education. In: Rudolph, J., Crawford, J., Sam, CY., Tan, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54509-2_3 Abstract This chapter demonstrates how higher and vocational education have long faced and continue to face a more insidious crisis than COVID: …
Markoff, B. (2024). Beyond the discipline gap: the role of spectacular state violence in the discipline and punishment of Black and Indigenous children in US public schools. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(2), 132–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2378304 ABSTRACT Education research frequently measures and calls for an end to racial disparities in rates of US …
Yarar, B. (2025), Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War. Global Networks, 25: e70004. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70004 ABSTRACT Over the past decade and more, many countries in the Middle East and Africa have experienced significant disruptions in their social and institutional life due to the rise …
Stephen J. Ball , Jordi Collet-Sabé, Against School. Thinking Education Differently, Springer, 2025 About this book This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult …
Baciu, Elena-Loreni , Lazăr, Theofild-Andrei , Totan, Raluca Iunia, Social goals under a neoliberal agenda: measures to promote equality in European higher education read through a Foucauldian lens, Frontiers in Sociology, vol 10, 2025 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1492863 Abstract In this study we draw on Foucault’s work on governmentality and examine the power dynamics involved in establishing and …
Bulut Doğan, Transformation of Higher Education in Turkey: A Foucauldian Analysis, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Abstract This book examines the transformation of higher education in Turkey (Türkiye) after 1980 through Foucault’s historical method, discourse analysis and the concept of dispositif in the field of higher education research. Foucault’s method is seen as holistic and historical. Discourse analysis …
Xu, P., & Ritchie, J. Neoliberalism, citizenship, and young children: Exploring discursive constructions of citizenship in early childhood curricula in China and Aotearoa New Zealand. (2025) Global Studies of Childhood https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106241311639 Abstract As an entitlement to rights, well-being and equity, young children’s citizenship lays the foundation for a democratic, just and sustainable world. This article …
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