Brad Gobby, 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.832338 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 …
LJoakim Landahl, The eye of power(-lessness): On the emergence of the panoptical and synoptical classroom (2013) History of Education, 42 (6), pp. 803-821. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2013.832408 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 …
Ali Meghji (2014), Moving away from Bourdieu and reproduction: Foucault, resistance and gender in secondary school, Paper for ‘Foucault and education: Retrospect and Prospect‘ conference (University of Sheffield). Abstract The way in which I will be defending the utility of Foucault’s works for educational research is through the idea that Foucault’s analytics of power enables …
Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt (2014) The confessing society: Foucault, confession and practices of lifelong learning. London: Routledge. Paperback version. Originally published in 2012 Publisher’s page PDF flyer with 20% discount “I highly appreciate the quality of Fejes’ and Dahlstedt’s research and writing. They manage to present in a comprehensible way some essential concepts of Foucault …
Roland Sintos Coloma, Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South (2013) Curriculum Inquiry, 43 (4), pp. 483-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/curi.12020 Abstract This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party …
Faye Linda Wachs and Laura Frances Chase, Explaining the failure of an obesity intervention: Combining Bourdieu’s symbolic violence and the Foucault’s microphysics of power to reconsider state interventions (2013) Sociology of Sport Journal, 30 (2), pp. 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.30.2.111 Abstract This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. …
Magnus Dahlstedt and Andreas Fejes, Family makeover: coaching, confession and parental responsibilisation (2013) Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 22(2), 169–188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.812136 Abstract Today, there is a widespread idea that parents need to learn how to carry out their roles as parents. Practices of parental learning operate throughout society. This article deals with one particular practice of …
Caroline Bath, Conceptualising listening to young children as an ethic of care in early childhood education and care (2013) Children and Society, 27 (5), pp. 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00407.x Abstract This paper focuses on recent discourses and practices of listening to young children, in order to highlight listening as an ethical practice in early childhood education and …
Shira Wolosky, Foucault at School: Discipline, Education and Agency in Harry Potter, Children’s Literature in Education, 45, 285–297 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-013-9215-6 Abstract The formative power of children’s literature is both great and suspicious. As a resource of socialization, the construction and experience of children’s literature can be seen as modes of disciplinary coercion such as Michel …
Anna Anderson, The critical purchase of genealogy: Critiquing student participation projects (2013) Discourse. Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.828417 Abstract Until recently the dominant critique of ‘student participation’ projects was one based on the theoretical assumptions of critical theory in the form of critical pedagogy. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a critical …
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