Marianne Fenech and Jennifer Sumsion, Early Childhood Teachers and Regulation: Complicating Power Relations Using a Foucauldian Lens, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, June 2007 vol. 8 no. 2 109-122 doi: 10.2304/ciec.2007.8.2.109 Abstract This article both supports and complicates the positioning of reconceptualists who frame the regulation of early childhood services as repressive. Drawing on Foucault’s …
Gray, E.M., Harris, A., Jones, T. Australian LGBTQ teachers, exclusionary spaces and points of interruption (2016) Sexualities, 19 (3), pp. 286-303. DOI: 10.1177/1363460715583602 Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) teachers are a marginalised group that historically have been absent from research on sexuality and schooling. Rather, much research in the field has focused …
Creagh, S. ‘Language Background Other Than English’: a problem NAPLaN test category for Australian students of refugee background (2016) Race Ethnicity and Education, 19 (2), pp. 252-273. DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2013.843521 Abstract Since 2008 Australia has held the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (known as NAPLAN) for all students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9. …
Vaahtera, E. Biopolitics and the repressive hypothesis of the body: the case of swimming training in Finland (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 18 (2), pp. 142-153. DOI: 10.1080/15017419.2015.1063538 Abstract Iris Marion Young, a feminist theoretician, argued that patriarchal society inhibits women to cultivate capable bodies. In contrast, Foucauldian arguments have stressed that to view …
Bruce Moghtader, Foucault and Educational Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Publisher’s site About this book In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one’s relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria …
Julio Groppa Aquino, Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim, Wearing Foucault’s Clogs: Biopolitics in Brazilian Educational Research, Sisyphus – Journal of Education, 2015, vol 3, no.3, 10-37. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.8900 Abstract The article initiates by presenting the context and effects of the uses of biopolitics, a notion that Foucault frames during a period of theoretical transition, when he operates …
Bourke, T., Carter, J. “There’s nothing standard about standards”: exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education (2016) Journal of Geography in Higher Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1144730 Abstract Quality in education at the tertiary level is constantly questioned, and increasingly “professional standards” are offered as the solution to the perceived …
A.B. Evans and J. Allen-Collinson, From ‘just a swimmer’ to a ‘swimming mother’: women’s embodied experiences of recreational aquatic activity with pre-school children (2016) Leisure Studies, 35 (2), pp. 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.962593 Abstract Increased academic attention on the gendering of leisure pastimes in recent years has highlighted the centrality of the gendered body in influencing how …
Michael Peters, Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A Foucauldian Perspective, Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001 58 https://ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/EDEQ/article/view/558 Abstract The notion of ‘enterprise culture’ emerged in the United Kingdom as a central motif in political thought under Margaret Thatcher’s administration. The notion represented a profound shift away from the Keynesian …
Stephen J. Ball, Living the Neo-liberal University, European Journal of Education, Volume 50, Issue 3, pages 258–261, September 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12132 Full pdf available on research gate Opening paragraphs ‘Each of my works is a part of my own biography. For one or other reason I had occasion to feel and live those things’ Truth, …
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