Inge Claringbould, Annelies Knoppers, and Frank Jacobs Young athletes and their coaches: disciplinary processes and habitus development (2014) Leisure Studies, Published online March 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.895027 Abstract Sport scholars have paid relatively little attention to meanings that participants in recreational youth sport may give meanings to their participation and how those meanings are informed by coaching …
Millei, Z., Cliff, K. The preschool bathroom: Making ‘problem bodies’ and the limit of the disciplinary regime over children (2014) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2), pp. 244-262. Abstract In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from …
Ideland, M., Malmberg, C. Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power: critical perspectives on education for sustainable development (2014) Environmental Education Research, published online Feb 2014 Abstract This article analyses how ‘eco-certified children’ are constructed as desirable subjects in teaching materials addressing education for sustainable development. We are interested in how discourses structure this cherished practice …
Raby, R. Children’s participation as neo-liberal governance? (2014) Discourse, 35 (1), pp. 77-89. Abstract Children’s participation initiatives have been increasingly introduced within various institutional jurisdictions around the world, partly in response to Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Such initiatives have been critically evaluated from a number of …
Governing Academic Life Conference at the London School of Economics and British Library 25 & 26th June 2014 Deadline for Abstracts: 31st March 2014 Website Details June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our …
Garratt, D., Piper, H., Taylor, B. ‘Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique (2013) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (5), pp. 615-629. Abstract This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault’s work, it examines the ‘politics of touch’ in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection …
Brown, K.D., Goldstein, L.S. Preservice elementary teachers’ understandings of competing notions of academic achievement coexisting in post-NCLB public schools (2013) Teachers College Record Volume 115 Number 1, 2013, p. 1-37 Further info Abstract Background/Context: Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, teaching in public school contexts has become more complex and challenging. Today, …
I have just finished (more or less) compiling a list of English language works on Foucault and education for my M.Ed (Master of Education) students. I thought this might also be of use to others so I have set up a permanent page for it here at Foucault News. Large as it is, the bibliography …
Gobby, B. Principal self-government and subjectification: the exercise of principal autonomy in the Western Australian Independent Public Schools programme (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (3), pp. 273-285. Abstract The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management sweeping …
Landahl, J. The eye of power(-lessness): On the emergence of the panoptical and synoptical classroom (2013) History of Education, 42 (6), pp. 803-821. Abstract This article considers the emergence and meaning of a particular kind of surveillance in classrooms: the one represented by the gaze of the teacher. Drawing on teaching manuals and other normative …
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