Catherine Manathunga, Mark Selkrig, Kirsten Sadler, and (Ron) Kim Keamy, Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university (2017) Higher Education Research and Development, 36 (3), pp. 526-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1289157 Abstract Measurement of academic work has become more significant than the intellectual, pedagogical, cultural, …
Rebecca Smith, The emergence of the quantified child (2017) Discourse, 38 (5), pp. 701-712. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1136269 Abstract Using document analysis, this paper examines the historical emergence of the quantified child, revealing how the collection and use of data has become normalized through legitimizing discourses. First, following in the traditions of Foucault’s genealogy and studies examining the …
Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Neoliberal and disciplinary environmentality and ‘sustainable seafood’ consumption: storying environmentally responsible action (2017) Environmental Education Research, 23 (8), pp. 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1105198 Abstract This article invokes a neoliberal and disciplinary governmentality lens in a political ecology of education framework to analyze educational programming at Long Beach, California’s Aquarium of the Pacific. I begin by …
Amber Hughes & Ron Laura, The contribution of Aboriginal epistemologies to mathematics education in Australia: Exploring the silences (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(4), 338–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1359782 Abstract Epistemology is a conceptual template for how we think about the world, and the study of how we come to know the world around us. The world does …
Gore, J. M. Reconciling educational research traditions. The Australian Educational Researcher, (2017) 44:357–372 DOI 10.1007/s13384-017-0245-8 Abstract The field of educational research encompasses a vast array of paradigmatic and methodological perspectives. Arguably, this range has both expanded and limited our achievements in the name of educational research. In Australia, the ascendancy of certain research perspectives has …
Gerdin, G. ‘It’s not like you are less of a man just because you don’t play rugby’—boys’ problematisation of gender during secondary school physical education lessons in New Zealand (2017) Sport, Education and Society, 22 (8), pp. 890-904. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2015.1112781 Abstract Despite clear messages from current physical education (PE) curricula about the importance of adopting …
Raaper, R. ‘Peacekeepers’ and ‘machine factories’: tracing Graduate Teaching Assistant subjectivity in a neoliberalised university (2017) British Journal of Sociology of Education, pp. 1-15. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2017.1367269 Abstract Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) experiences of their work and subjectivity in a neoliberalised higher education environment. By …
Burgess, C. ‘Having to say everyday … I’m not black enough … I’m not white enough’. Discourses of Aboriginality in the Australian education context (2017) Race Ethnicity and Education, 20 (6), pp. 737-751. DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1195353 Abstract This paper interrogates discourses of Aboriginality about, and by, early career Aboriginal teachers as they negotiate their emergent professional …
Richard Niesche, Amanda Keddie, Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice, Routledge, 2016 Description Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges …
Jane Perryman, Meg Maguire, Annette Braun, Stephen Ball, (2017). Surveillance, Governmentality and moving the goalposts: The influence of Ofsted on the work of schools in a post-panoptic era. British Journal of Educational Studies, September 2017, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2017.1372560 ABSTRACT This paper asks the question: to what extent do inspection regimes, particularly the Office for Standards in …
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