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 …
Malin Ideland, Claes Malmberg, Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power: critical perspectives on education for sustainable development (2015) Environmental Education Research, 21(2), 173–182 published online Feb 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.879696 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 …
Rebecca Raby, Children’s participation as neo-liberal governance? (2014) Discourse, 35 (1), pp. 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.739468 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 …
Governing Academic Life Conference at the London School of Economics and British Library 25 & 26th June 2014 Deadline for Abstracts: 31st March 2014 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 present …
Maria Olson, Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt, Katherine Nicoll, 2015. “Citizenship Discourses: Production and Curriculum.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 36 (7): 1036–53. Published online: 24 Feb 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.883917 Abstract This paper explores citizenship discourses empirically through upper secondary school student’s understandings, as these emerge in and through their everyday experiences. Drawing on a post-structuralist …
Dean Garratt, Heather Piper & Bill Taylor, ‘Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique (2013) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (5), pp. 615-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2012.736861 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 …
Keffrelyn D. Brown and Lisa S. Goldstein, 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 https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811311500104 Abstract Background/Context: Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, teaching in public school contexts has become more complex and …
Update 7 July 2026. The most recent update of this bibliography was the 29th May 2018. A non comprehensive record of more recent articles can be found by clicking the Education category on Foucault News. I have just finished (more or less) compiling a list of English language works on Foucault and education for my …
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