Foucault News

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

Niesche, R. Governmentality and My School: School Principals in Societies of Control (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2), pp. 133-145. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793925 Abstract The introduction of new accountabilities and techniques of government for the purposes of educational reform have created new complexities and tensions for school leadership. Policies such as the publishing of league …

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Terri Bourke, John Lidstone & Mary Ryan, Schooling Teachers: Professionalism or disciplinary power? (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (1), pp. 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2013.839374 Abstract Since public schooling was introduced in the nineteenth century, teachers in many western countries have endeavoured to achieve professional recognition. For a short period in the latter part of the twentieth …

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van Drenth, A. Sensorial experiences and childhood: nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy (2015) Paedagogica Historica, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2015.1019711 Abstract Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this …

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Margaret Bird – Inculcating an appreciation of time pressure in the young: the training of children for working life in 18th-century England Podcast at Backdoor broadcasting Royal Holloway University of London Department of History 
Departmental Research seminars 2014/2015 24 March 2015 The rearing of children has been a topic at the centre of academic debate …

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Lingard, B. Thinking About Theory in Educational Research: Fieldwork in philosophy (2015) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2), pp. 173-191. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.793928 Abstract This article responds to and reflects upon the articles in this special issue. Specifically, it deals with the usage of theory in each of the articles, what we might see, as examples …

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Gibson, K.E., Dempsey, S.E. Make good choices, kid: biopolitics of children’s bodies and school lunch reform in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (2015) Children’s Geographies, 13 (1), pp. 44-58. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.827875 Abstract In recent debates surrounding childhood nutrition and US school lunch reforms, the child’s body serves as a contested battleground in a destructive politics of …

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Rutherford, V., Conway, P.F., Murphy, R. Looking like a teacher: fashioning an embodied identity through dressage (2015) Teaching Education, 15 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/10476210.2014.997699 Abstract This article makes a case for bringing in the body from the margins of research on teacher education. In doing so, it considers the personal and socio cultural …

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Mifsud, D. Circulating power and in/visibility: Layers of educational leadership (2015) Journal of Workplace Learning, 27 (1), pp. 51-67. DOI: 10.1108/JWL-09-2013-0065 Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study circulating power and in/visibility. In the unfolding Maltese education scenario of decentralization and school networking, suffused with entrenched power, with added layers of leadership …

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Laura Pinto and Selena Nemorin, Who’s the Boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Dec 1, 2014 See also this review of the article on Huffington Post The Elf on the Shelf® is a special scout elf sent from the North Pole to help Santa Claus …

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BA.C. (Tina) Besley ‘Finding Foucault’: orders of discourse and cultures of the self (2014) Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 47, 2015 – Issue 13-14 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.945510 Abstract The idea of finding Foucault first looks at the many influences on Foucault, including his Nietzschean acclamations. It examines Foucault’s critical history of thought, his work on the orders …

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