Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. (2025). Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2532634 ABSTRACT Policies encapsulate distilled values and have good intentions. However, how problems are represented and then interpreted and translated into practice is not always clear. …
Atkinson-Ross, C., & Wu, W. (2025). Inside the Chinese heterosexual matrix: lesbian and gay middle leaders’ experiences in Chinese schools. Gender and Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506356 ABSTRACT This paper employs feminist poststructuralist and queer theory to analyze the experiences of three gay and lesbian middle leaders in Chinese schools. Drawing on Butler’s heterosexual matrix, and Foucault’s …
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 …
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