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 …
Denise Mifsud, Foucault and School Leadership Research. Bridging Theory and Method, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research. The book draws on …
Barker, D., Quennerstedt, M. Power and group work in physical education: A Foucauldian perspective (2017) European Physical Education Review, 23 (3), pp. 339-353. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15620716 Abstract Group work is used in physical education (PE) to encourage student-directed, collaborative learning. Aligned with this aim, group work is expected to shift some power from teacher to students …
Öhman, M. Losing touch – Teachers’ self-regulation in physical education (2017) European Physical Education Review, 23 (3), pp. 297-310. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15622159 Abstract The question of physical interaction is especially relevant in school physical education, where a lot of the teaching and activities are based on body movements. However, the issue of ‘touching’ has been questioned …
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