Formosinho, M., Jesus, P., Reis, C. Emancipatory and critical language education: a plea for translingual possible selves and worlds (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1237983 Abstract Language is the main resource for meaningful action, including the very formation of selves and psychosocial identities, shaped by practical norms, beliefs, and …
Lambert, K., Wright, P., Currie, J., Pascoe, R. Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: the effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1238402 Abstract This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary …
Sellar, S., Thompson, G. The Becoming-Statistic: Information Ontologies and Computerized Adaptive Testing in Education (2016) Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 16 (5), pp. 491-501. DOI: 10.1177/1532708616655770 Abstract This article examines how computerized adaptive testing functions in relation to learning in control societies. We first document the transition from static and discrete forms of statistical work …
Varea, V., Pang, B. Using visual methodologies to understand pre-service Health and Physical Education teachers’ subjectivities of bodies (2016) Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1228625 Abstract Socio-cultural theorists have argued that having a diverse understanding of subjectivities of normal/ideal bodies is important for Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers. When …
Edwards, R. Competence-based education and the limitations of critique (2016) International Journal of Training Research, 14 (3), pp. 244-255. DOI: 10.1080/14480220.2016.1254366 Abstract Drawing upon the work of Foucault and Latour, this article reflects on 25 years of critique of competence-based education and its continuing strength as a way of framing education and training. Using an …
Ja’afar, Z., Md. Yusof, N., Ibrahim, N. Revisioning history: A deconstructionist reading of a learner’s multimodal text, ‘Revenge’ (2016) Asian Social Science, 12 (8), pp. 64-73. DOI: 10.5539/ass.v12n8p64 Abstract Recent interest in multimodality recognizes the integration of text and image in meaning-making as representing reality. It has also been argued that with the use of …
Heffernan, A. The Emperor’s perfect map: leadership by numbers (2016) Australian Educational Researcher, 43 (3), pp. 377-391. DOI: 10.1007/s13384-016-0206-7 Abstract This paper establishes that system-generated data profiles are influencing the work of principals in three Queensland state schools. Drawing upon Foucault’s notions of governance, as well as research emphasising performative cultures and the importance placed …
Powell, D. Governing the (un)healthy child-consumer in the age of the childhood obesity crisis (2016) Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. 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 …
Paatela-Nieminen, M., Itkonen, T., Talib, M.-T. Reconstructing Imagined Finnishness: The Case of Art Education through the Concept of Place (2016) International Journal of Art and Design Education, 35 (2), pp. 229-242. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12057 Abstract This multidisciplinary article presents a methodology, a research project and selected outcomes from an environmental art education course for teacher students. …
Sonu, D., Benson, J. The quasi-human child: How normative conceptions of childhood enabled neoliberal school reform in the United States (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 230-247. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168259 Abstract This paper argues that normative conceptions of the child, as a natural quasi-human being in need of guidance, enable current school reforms in the United …
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