Lanuza, G.M. Agency and Governmentality: The Regulation and resistance of Muslim students in a public high school (2013) Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 13 (2), pp. 63-78. Further info Abstract This paper is an attempt to show how Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality can be used to illustrate the regulation of Muslim students while engaging in …
Gristy, C. Engaging with and moving on from participatory research: A personal reflection (2014) International Journal of Research and Method in Education. Article in Press. Abstract In this paper, I respond to the call to articulate experiences of the messy realities of participatory research. I reflect on my engagement and struggle with the realities and …
Lewis, S., Hardy, I. Funding, reputation and targets: the discursive logics of high-stakes testing (2014) Cambridge Journal of Education. Article in Press. Abstract This paper provides insights into teacher and school-based administrators’ responses to policy demands for improved outcomes on high-stakes, standardised literacy and numeracy tests in Australia. Specifically, the research reveals the effects of …
Barros, S.R. Deciphering Babel: Dis/locations of the professional self and the second language curriculum (2013) Qualitative Report, 18 (52). Full PDF Abstract In the following (auto) ethnographic study, I draw from Burdick’s (2012) analogy of qualitative research as “auto-archeology” and from parrhesia (Foucault, 1988) as a rhetorical device of self-definition and preservation to explore the …
Bye, J. Foucault and the use of critique: breaching the self-evidence of educational practices (2014) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Article in Press. Abstract This paper poses methodological questions about the role and limits of Foucault’s concept of governmentality in education research. Firstly, it argues for the utility of governmentality as a means …
Ferry, M.D., Richards, C. Biopedagogy digitalized: ‘educational’ relations among participants on an online weight loss surgery forum (2014) Critical Public Health. Article in Press. Abstract Foucault uses the term ‘biopower’ to describe the totalizing effects of regulation of life through the manipulation of political messages, such as those in the obesity debate. This paper attempts …
Valerie Harwood and Julie Allan. Psychopathology at school: Theorizing mental disorders in education, Routledge (2014) Further info Description Psychopathology at School provides a timely response to concerns about the rising numbers of children whose behaviour is recognised and understood as a medicalised condition, rather than simply as poor behaviour caused by other factors. It is …
Peter C. O’Brien, Performance Government: Activating and regulating the self-governing capacities of teachers and school leaders, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Published online: 04 Jul 2014 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.930682 Abstract This article analyses ‘performance government’ as an emergent form of rule in advanced liberal democracies. It discloses how teachers and school leaders in Australia are being governed …
Silcock, M., Hocking, C., Payne, D. Childhood constructions of contemporary technology: Using discourse analysis to understand the creation of occupational possibilities (2014) Journal of Occupational Science, 21 (3), pp. 357-370. Abstract Ten children aged 10-12 years were audio recorded discussing and demonstrating the types of technology they regularly used at home. A critical discourse analysis …
Jacobs, F., Claringbould, I., Knoppers, A. Becoming a ‘good coach’ (2014) Sport, Education and Society, . Article in Press. Abstract The purpose of this paper was to gain insight into how coaches problematized their coaching practices and the process in which they engaged to become what they perceived to be better coaches using a course …
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