Donald Gillies, Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault, Routledge, 2013 Publisher’s site Description Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today’s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault’s understanding of critique is as a ‘permanent’ ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time …
Eva Vakirtzi, Phil Bayliss, Towards a Foucauldian Methodology in the Study of Autism: Issues of Archaeology, Genealogy, and Subjectification (2013) Journal of Philosophy of Education Volume 47, Issue 3, pages 364–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12004 Abstract The remarkable increase in diagnoses of autism has paralleled an increase in scientific research and turned the syndrome into a kind of …
De Marzio, D.M. The Pedagogy of Self-Fashioning: A Foucaultian Study of Montaigne’s “On Educating Children”, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 31, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 387-405 DOI: 10.1007%2Fs11217-011-9282-3 Abstract In this paper I interpret Montaigne’s essay, “On Educating Children”, as a pedagogical text through its performance of a distinct epistolary function, one that addresses …
Stephen J. Ball, Foucault, Power, and Education, London: Routledge, 2012 Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education Description Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in …
Ball, S.J., Olmedo, A. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities (2013) Critical Studies in Education, 54 (1), pp. 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2013.740678 Abstract Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s …
Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault, Habermas,Bourdieu and Derrida. Edited by Mark Murphy, London: Routledge, April 2013 September 2025 update: Link above is to the second edition published in 2022. Description Although education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists, a number of these have been of particular significance …
Kannen, V. (2013). These are not ‘regular places’: women and gender studies classrooms as heterotopias. Gender, Place & Culture, 21(1), 52–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2012.759910 Abstract This article questions the transformative potential of women and gender studies classrooms through a discussion of student experiences of privilege and oppression in these spaces. Using in-depth interviews with 22 undergraduate students …
Theresa Bourke, Mary Ryan, John Lidstone, Reclaiming professionalism for geography education: Defending our own territory, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 28, Issue 7, October 2012, Pages 990–998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2012.05.005 Abstract In a world where governments increasingly attempt to impose regulation on all professional activities, this paper advocates that professional standards for teachers be developed ‘by the …
Seungho Moon, Disciplinary Images of “Korean-Ness”: Autobiographical Interrogations on the Panopticon, SAGE Open, July-September 2012 vol. 2 no. 3 https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012455649 Abstract The purpose of this study is to generate complicated conversations about identity and culture with an examination of various panoptic technologies, including separation, invisibility, control, and productivity. Drawn from Foucault’s panopticism, the author examines …
Paul Rabinow, How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault, The Pluralist, Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2012, pp. 25-37 https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.7.3.0025 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The problem reduced to its lowest terms is whether inquiry can develop in its own ongoing course the logical standards and …
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