Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Stephen J Ball, Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast, Policy Futures in education, Volume: 14 issue: 8, page(s): 1046-1059 Article first published online: August 23, 2016;Issue published: November 1, 2016 DOI: 10.1177/1478210316664259 Abstract A major aim of this paper is to draw attention to the insidious manner in which the deficit discourse and practices associated …

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Parrhesía y estética de la existencia, Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos, Núm. 2 (2017) DORSAL ISSN 0719-7519 es una Revista digital publicada por CENALTES Ediciones con acceso abierto a su contenido, de periodicidad semestral y editada por la Red Iberoamericana Foucault. En ella se publican artículos de investigación procedentes de distintas disciplinas científicas que utilicen …

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O’Brien, Peter C. (2017). The adaptive professional: Teachers, school leaders and ethical-governmental practices of (self-) formation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, Pages 1-15 | Published online: 16 Jun 2017 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1339585 Abstract This article analyses the relations that teachers and school leaders establish with themselves and with others—especially those who would seek to govern them—through the …

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J. Moreno Pestaña, Foucault, Bourdieu et la sociologie de la philosophie. À propos de Leçons sur la volonté de savoir Texte en cours de publication dans Cartografie sociali. Rivista di sociologia e scienze umane, Anno II, n. 2, novembre 2017. Academia.edu link ABSTRACT In this text, I analyze the model of history of philosophy proposed …

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Liz Kirwan* and Kathy Hall, The mathematics problem: the construction of a market-led education discourse in the Republic of Ireland, Critical Studies in Education, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2016, 376–393. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1102752 Educational change in the neoliberal state is permeated by the effects of forces from outside the field of education itself. The process of …

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Müllner, R. Self-Improvement In and Through Sports: Cultural-Historical Perspectives (2017) International Journal of the History of Sport, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1301431 Abstract This study examines the development of the modern self-improvement cultures in and through sports using three paradigmatic historic examples. It is theoretically based on Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s analyses …

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Raaen, F.D. Placement mentors making sense of research-based knowledge (2017) Teacher Development, pp. 1-21. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13664530.2017.1308429 Abstract Placement mentors’ role increasingly implies demonstrating to student teachers how research-based knowledge in combination with experience-based knowledge may be relevant in teachers’ professional work. This is a challenge. Placement mentors are often unsure how to …

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Konoval, B. From sexuality to governmentality: the Oedipus complex of Michel Foucault (2017) Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1-33. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244317000038 Abstract The figure of Oedipus haunted the thought of Michel Foucault from the outset of his tenure at the Collège de France, in association with several key philosophical and historical projects, and …

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Perryman, J., Ball, S. J., Braun, A., & Maguire, M. (2017). Translating policy: governmentality and the reflective teacher. Journal of Education Policy, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2017.1309072 Abstract This paper deploys some concepts from the work of Michel Foucault to problematise the mundane and quotidian practices of policy translation as these occur in the everyday of schools. …

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Marín-Díaz, D.L. The key is the individual: Practices of the self, self-help and learning (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 710-719. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1204737 ABSTRACT: The article analyses the boom of self-help discourses and their relationship with pedagogic discourses, with the purpose of marking the centrality of the individual in the practices of contemporaneous …

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