Chueh, H.-C., Chen, Y.-T. Social Involvement: Deconstructing practices relating to the formation of students who work with autistic children in a university service-learning course (2014) Educational Philosophy and Theory, Published online March 2014 Abstract Participation in service-learning courses has always been considered a part of the informal education in tertiary education worldwide. Originating from the …
Darren Powell & Michael Gard, The governmentality of childhood obesity: Coca-Cola, public health and primary schools, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Published online: 14 Apr 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2014.905045 Abstract In this paper, we examine the emergence of what might seem an unexpected policy outcome – a large multinational corporation, frequently blamed for exacerbating …
Alisa Jane Percya, A critical turn in higher education research: turning the critical lens on the Academic Language and Learning educator, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Published online: 04 Apr 2014 Abstract This paper suggests that historical ontology, as one form of reflexive critique, is an instructive research design for making sense …
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, …
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