Sabrina Smith and Matthew Atencio, “Yoga is yoga. Yoga is everywhere. You either practice or you don’t”: a qualitative examination of yoga social dynamics (2017) Sport in Society, 20(9), 1167–1184. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1269082 Abstract Within the context of yoga’s increasing popularity, the prevailing view that yoga is ‘good for everyone’ is often perpetuated by participants. This view …
Springer RA, Clinton ME. Doing Foucault: inquiring into nursing knowledge with Foucauldian discourse analysis. Nursing Philosophy. 2015 Apr;16(2):87-97 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12079 Abstract Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) is a methodology that is well suited to inquiring into nursing knowledge and its organization. It is a critical analytic approach derived from Foucault’s histories of science, madness, medicine, incarceration …
Borovoy, A. Japan’s Public Health Paradigm: Governmentality and the Containment of Harmful Behavior (2017) Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 36 (1), pp. 32-46. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2016.1148033 Abstract In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and …
Quartermaine, A. The disposition of concern: an exploration into the affects of the power-knowledge dynamics uncovered during research into pupils’ perceptions of terrorism (2016) International Journal of Research and Method in Education, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2016.1186631 Abstract In recent years, counter-terrorism measures have become incorporated into the UK education system, with the …
Sandberg, F., Fejes, A., Dahlstedt, M., Olson, M. Adult Education as a Heterotopia of Deviation: A Dwelling for the Abnormal Citizen (2016) Adult Education Quarterly, 66 (2), pp. 103-119. DOI: 10.1177/0741713615618447 Abstract We argue that municipal adult education (MAE) can be seen as a place for displaced and abnormal citizens to gain temporary stability, enabling …
Brown, C. ‘Favourite places in school’ for lower-set ‘ability’ pupils: school groupings practices and children’s spatial orientations (2016) Children’s Geographies, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2016.1269154 Abstract This paper contributes to the recent turn within Children’s Geographies concerned with understanding and illuminating educational inequalities. The focus is upon pupils assigned to lower ‘ability’ groupings, …
Carl Death, Counter-conducts: A Foucauldian Analytics of Protest, Social Movement Studies Vol. 9 , Iss. 3, 2010 https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2010.493655 Abstract The influence of Foucault on studies of social movements, dissent and protest is not as direct as might be imagined. He is generally regarded as focusing more on the analysis of power and government than forms …
De Schauwer, E., Van de Putte, I., Blockmans, I.G.E., Davies, B. The intra-active production of normativity and difference (2016) Gender and Education, pp. 1-16. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1259463 Abstract Drawing on memory stories told in a collective biography workshop about children’s encounters with schooling, this paper experiments with re-imagining the child-student-subject as an ‘emergent …
Raaper, R. Tracing assessment policy discourses in neoliberalised higher education settings (2016) Journal of Education Policy, pp. 1-18. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2016.1257160 Abstract This article explores assessment policy in two European universities with different political, historical and social backgrounds: the University of Glasgow and Tallinn University. The University of Glasgow is a well-established Russell …
Saari, A. Knowledge Without Contexts? A Foucauldian Analysis of E.L. Thorndike’s Positivist Educational Research (2016) Studies in Philosophy and Education, 35 (6), pp. 589-603. DOI: 10.1007/s11217-016-9527-2 Abstract The article discusses the allegedly decontextualized and ahistorical traits in positivist educational research and curriculum by examining its emergence in early twentieth-century empirical education. Edward Lee Thorndike’s educational …
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