Call for book proposals: Theory as method in education research From the Social Theory Applied blog, 2 January 2016 Update October 2025: Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Mark Murphy is currently in negotiations with a book publisher regarding a potential book series on the topic: Theory as …
Stephen John Kelly, Governing civil society: How literacy, education and security were brought together, PhD Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015 Abstract This study investigates the representation and deployment of the categories literacy, education and security in government policy. Each of these categories is the foci of significant inquiry and occupies distinct spaces in academic …
Bondy, J.M. Negotiating domination and resistance: English language learners and Foucault’s Care of the Self in the context of English-only education (2015) Race Ethnicity and Education, 21 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2015.1095171 Abstract This article explores the basis for resistance to the normalizing technologies associated with English-only legislation and resulting educational practices. The dominance …
Vinod Kumar Rawat, Knowledge-Power/Resistance: Beyond Bacon, Ambedkar and Foucault, Partridge India Publication, 2014 Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Educational institutes, that is, “knowledge factories,” apart from producing self-governing citizens, and skilled docile workers, function as minute social observatories that indirectly monitor their families. Michel Foucault delineates power in terms of Pastoral (church and salvation), Sovereign (visible …
Thomson, P., Pennacchia, J. Hugs and behaviour points: Alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth (2015) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2015.1102340 Abstract In England, alternative education (AE) is offered to young people formally excluded from school, close to formal exclusion or who have been informally pushed to …
Mifsud, D. The policy discourse of networking and its effect on school autonomy: a Foucauldian interpretation (2015) Journal of Educational Administration and History, 24 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2016.1092427 Abstract Policy discourse officially operates to distinctly influence public perception in an irrevocable and normalising manner. In a Maltese educational scenario of gradual decentralisation and …
Casey, M., Mooney, A., Smyth, J., Payne, W. ‘Power, regulation and physically active identities’: the experiences of rural and regional living adolescent girls (2015) Gender and Education, 20 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1093098 Abstract Drawing on interpretations of Foucault’s techniques of power, we explored the discourses and power relations operative between groups of girls …
Llewellyn, A. Problematising the pursuit of progress in mathematics education (2015) Educational Studies in Mathematics, 16 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10649-015-9645-8 Abstract In this article, I use a Foucauldian poststructural analysis to examine productions of progress within key discursive spaces of mathematics education. These sites of production are educational policy, mathematics education research and …
Kollosche, D. Criticising with Foucault: towards a guiding framework for socio-political studies in mathematics education (2015) Educational Studies in Mathematics, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10649-015-9648-5 Abstract Socio-political studies in mathematics education often touch complex fields of interaction between education, mathematics and the political. In this paper I present a Foucault-based framework for socio-political …
Schreiber, V., Stein, C., Pütz, R. Governing childhood through crime prevention: the case of the German school system (2015) Children’s Geographies, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2015.1048426 Abstract Over the last decade, numerous crime prevention programmes have been implemented across the German school sector. Although several serious violent attacks have happened in the last …
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