Gerdin, G. The disciplinary and pleasurable spaces of boys’ PE – The art of distributions (2016) European Physical Education Review, 22 (3), pp. 315-335. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15610352 Abstract In taking heed of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ in social theory this paper explores how the spatial intersects with boys’ performances of gender and (dis)pleasures in school physical …
Kelly, S. Securing Dangerous Children as Literate Subjects (2016) Children Australia, pp. 1-10. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/cha.2016.16 Abstract This paper examines how the education of children as literate subjects in schools and community settings is implicated in the politics of securing civil society. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics is used to consider how young people …
Done, E.J., Murphy, M., Knowler, H. University-based professional learning for women teachers and the ‘to care’ or ‘to lead’ dilemma (2016) Professional Development in Education, 42 (4), pp. 610-627. DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2014.948690 Abstract The authors consider the recasting of teaching as leadership with reference to school principals or heads and claim that many women teachers decline …
Welsh, J. Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control (2016) International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10767-016-9228-4 Abstract Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic life …
Gillies, D. and Mifsud, D. (2016) Policy in transition: The emergence of tackling early school leaving (ESL) as EU policy priority, Journal of Education Policy, 31:4, 443-465, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2016.1196393. Abstract This paper explores, from a Foucauldian perspective, the emergence and nature of the current EU education policy priority issue of ‘early school leaving’. The paper …
Mifsud, D. ‘Decentralised’ neoliberalism and/or ‘masked’ re-centralisation? The policy to practice trajectory of Maltese school reform through the lens of neoliberalism and Foucault (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (4), pp. 443-465. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1121409 Abstract The politics of the later part of the twentieth century have been marked by the emergence of neoliberalism, which has …
Andrew Hope, Governmentality and the ‘selling’ of school surveillance devices, The Sociological Review. Volume 63, Issue 4, pages 840–857, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12279 Abstract In late modernity there has been a massive growth in ‘new’ surveillance devices situated within schools. This paper explores the reasons behind this proliferation, considering the role of key protagonists and …
Editor: For those of you who, like myself, are involved in teaching Foucault: I find this analysis by Slavoj Žižek of John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live, from Sophie Fiennes’ 2012 film The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology to be particularly apt.
Helena Ostrowicka, On the Reception of Foucauldian Ideas in Pedagogical Research, European Educational Research Journal, September 2011 vol. 10 no. 3 433-444 doi: 10.2304/eerj.2011.10.3.433 Full text Abstract The article is devoted to the presentation of the reception of Foucauldian ideas in Polish pedagogical research over the past twenty years. This movement of thought is described …
O’Neill, A.-M. Assessment-based curriculum: globalising and enterprising culture, human capital and teacher–technicians in Aotearoa New Zealand (2016) Journal of Education Policy, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2016.1150520 Abstract This policy chronology traces the institution of globalised school curriculum and assessment discourses, as a vernacular and specific form of public rationalisation and educational governmentality in …
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