John Welsh, Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 30, 83–106 (2017). Published online 2016 https://doi.org/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 via …
Donald Gillies and Denise Mifsud, (2016) Policy in transition: The emergence of tackling early school leaving (ESL) as EU policy priority, Journal of Education Policy, 31:4, 443-465, https://doi.org/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 suggests …
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 https://doi.org/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 the …
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 https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2011.10.3.433 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 as an oscillation …
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 …
Young, H. Asking the ‘right’ questions: the constitution of school governing bodies as apolitical (2016) Journal of Education Policy, 31 (2), pp. 161-177. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1062145 Abstract School governing bodies in England have considerable powers and responsibilities with regard to the education of pupils. This paper draws on an analysis of policy and on qualitative research …
Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education Special Interest Group SIG 45 Part of the AARE. The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results. SIG Purpose The Foucault …
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 https://doi.org/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 construction …
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