Valentim, I.V.L. Between Academic Pimping and Moral Harassment in Higher Education: an Autoethnography in a Brazilian Public University (2018) Journal of Academic Ethics, 16 (2), pp. 151-171. DOI: 10.1007/s10805-018-9300-y Abstract It is shocking to notice that universities still research few of what daily happens inside their walls. Even though knowledge amount to just a small …
Holloway, J., Keddie, A. ‘Make money, get money’: how two autonomous schools have commercialised their services (2018) Discourse, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2018.1451305 Abstract Using the stories of two autonomous public schools in Australia, this paper demonstrates how commercialisation can simultaneously position schools as both consumer and for-profit producer. Drawing on Foucault’s articulation …
Powell, D. Governing the (un)healthy child-consumer in the age of the childhood obesity crisis (2018) Sport, Education and Society, 23 (4), pp. 297-310. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1192530 Abstract In recent years, multinational food and drink corporations and their marketing practices have been blamed for the global childhood obesity ‘crisis’. Unsurprisingly, these corporations have been quick to refute …
Hickey, C., Mooney, A. Challenging the pervasiveness of hypermasculinity and heteronormativity in an all-boys’ school (2018) Australian Educational Researcher, 45 (2), pp. 237-253. DOI: 10.1007/s13384-017-0249-4 Abstract There is a rich, albeit chequered, history around single-sex schooling providing an educational option for nurturing the particular educational interests and needs of boys. While all-boys’ schools continue to …
Charlier, J.-É., Panait, O.M. Resistances to global educational prescriptions in the Global South: theoretical considerations through Michel Foucault’s lenses (2018) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (3), pp. 348-364. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1351865 Abstract This article proposes an inquiry into Foucault’s approach of subjectivation, extending it to the institutional actors and individual subjects in the educational …
Brown, C., Carr, S. Education policy and mental weakness: a response to a mental health crisis (2018) Journal of Education Policy, pp. 1-25. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2018.1445293 Abstract Educationalists have been concerned with the labelling and treatment of children with mental health difficulties in the education system in England for some time. These concerns …
Clapham, A., Vickers, R. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: exploring ‘teaching for mastery’ policy borrowing (2018) Oxford Review of Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1450745 Abstract Mathematics education is a high-stakes indicator of success in ‘über’ performative systems. The search to address England’s mathematics underperformance resulted in cross-national attraction toward, and …
Editor: I have recently updated my extensive, but by no means comprehensive, bibliography of works on Foucault and Education . If there is anything missing, please send me an email and I will add it in. Items in languages other than English are welcome.
Call for chapters: Would Foucault have read Harry Potter? Unlocking social theory with popular culture Naomi Barnes, Amanda Heffernan and Shirley Steinberg are calling for abstracts for an edited book, tentatively titled Would Foucault have read Harry Potter? Unlocking social theory with popular culture. After initial consultation, the book is intended for Palgrave Publications. Below is …
Hinchliffe, G. Epistemic freedom and education (2018) Ethics and Education, 13 (2), pp. 191-207. DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2018.1438150 Abstract First of all, I define the concept of epistemic freedom in the light of the changing nature of educational practice that prioritise over-prescriptive conceptions of learning. I defend the ‘reality’ of this freedom against possible determinist-related criticisms. I …
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