Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Harriet Pattison, How to Desire Differently: Home Education as a Heterotopia, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 49, Issue 4, pages 619–637, November 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12130 Abstract This article explores the co-existence of, and relationship between, alternative education in the form of home education and mainstream schooling. Home education is conceptually subordinate to schooling, relying …

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Lawrence D. Berg, Edward H. Huijbens, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Producing Anxiety in the Neoliberal University Forthcoming in The Canadian Geographer/le Géographe Canadien Special issue on Critical Reflections on Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography Guest edited by Linda Peake, Kate Parizeau, and Beverley Mullings Draft on Academia.edu Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical analysis …

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Conor Heaney, ‘What is the University today?’, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 13 (2), 2015, 287-314 Full PDF here and here Abstract What is the University today? In this paper, a Foucault and Deleuzo-Guattarian inspired approach is taken. I argue that the University is, today, a site of ‘neoliberal governmentality’, which governs students and …

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Dirk Postma, Critical agency in education: a Foucauldian perspective, Journal of Education, No. 61, 2015, 31-52 Full text Abstract While the neoliberal order is associated with the economy, government and globalisation, as a form of governmentality it effects a particular subjectivity. The subject is the terrain where the contest of control plays out. The subject …

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McGarry, Michael (2013) “To read, write, and cast accounts”: Foucault, Governmentality and Education in Upper Canada/Canada West, Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto Full text ABSTRACT Contributing to the work of philosophers of education who have been examining issues of economy and emancipation, this dissertation employs a set of critical lenses drawn from Foucault’s investigation of …

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Thompson, G., Mockler, N. Principals of audit: testing, data and ‘implicated advocacy’ (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040376 Abstract Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball (2003) has termed the …

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Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education (2015) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1117506 Abstract In schools, the notion of ‘care is often synonymous with welfare and disciplinary regimes. Drawing on Foucault, and a study of alternative education (AE) across the UK, and looking in …

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Bredlöv, E. Shaping the female student: an analysis of Swedish beauty school recruitment texts (2015) Studies in Continuing Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2015.1113165 Abstract This study focuses on the recruitment of adults to the beauty industry in Sweden. It is concerned with a move in (beauty) education away from state and towards …

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Olssen, M. Neoliberal competition in higher education today: research, accountability and impact (2016) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (1), pp. 129-148. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2015.1100530 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s elaboration of neoliberalism as a positive form of state power, the ascendancy of neoliberalism in higher education in Britain is examined in terms of the displacement …

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Sifakakis, P., Tsatsaroni, A., Sarakinioti, A., Kourou, M. Governance and knowledge transformations in educational administration: Greek responses to global policies (2016) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48 (1), pp. 35-67. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2015.1040377 Abstract This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the …

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