Charteris, J., Jones, M., Nye, A., Reyes, V. A heterotopology of the academy: mapping assemblages as possibilised heterotopias (2016) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1250178 Abstract Heterotopias are counter-sites of enacted utopias through which reality is simultaneously represented, contested and inverted. They are physical or mental spaces …
Wieser, C. Teaching and personal educational knowledge–conceptual considerations for research on knowledge transformation (2016) European Journal of Teacher Education, 39 (5), pp. 588-601. DOI: 10.1080/02619768.2016.1253673 Abstract Teacher knowledge is currently explored in three major research paradigms. This paper reviews how teaching and personal educational knowledge are related in these three paradigms, namely: the evidence paradigm, …
Farrell, F., Duckworth, V., Reece, M., Rigby, P. The moral frontiers of English education policy: governmentality and ethics within an alternative provision free school (2016) Educational Review, pp. 1-17. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2016.1223018 Abstract This article is a critical poststructuralist analysis of Conservative led free school policy in England focussing on claims made by …
Christensen, G. Genealogy and educational research (2016) International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29 (6), pp. 763-776. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1162871 Abstract The aim of this paper was to demonstrate how genealogy can be used as a method for critical education research. As Foucault emphasized, genealogy is a method for identifying the way in which the …
Heffernan, A. The accountability generation: exploring an emerging leadership paradigm for beginning principals (2017) Discourse, pp. 1-12. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1280001 Abstract School leaders in Queensland, Australia, are working in a rapidly shifting policy landscape, expected to work towards system-defined improvement measures involving increasingly higher external accountabilities. This article analyses a group of long-term …
Thoma, M. Critical analysis of textbooks: knowledge-generating logics and the emerging image of ‘global economic contexts’ (2017) Critical Studies in Education, 58 (1), pp. 19-35. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2015.1111248 Abstract This paper presents an approach to the critical analysis of textbook knowledge, which, working from a discourse theory perspective (based on the work of Foucault), refers to …
Gerdin, G., Pringle, R. The politics of pleasure: an ethnographic examination exploring the dominance of the multi-activity sport-based physical education model (2017) Sport, Education and Society, 22 (2), pp. 194-213. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2015.1019448 Abstract Kirk warns that physical education (PE) exists in a precarious situation as the dominance of the multi-activity sport-techniques model, and its associated …
Murphy, Michael P. A. 2017. “Pouvoir constituant betrayed: a model of abjection in power relations” Journal of Political Power (Ahead of Print): 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2017.1287471 Abstract Examination of the limit serves as a powerful tool for revealing the hidden characteristics of concepts, and also their relationship with other concepts. This article follows the processes of …
Bruno Latour, Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern, Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004) Full PDF Wars. So many wars. Wars outside and wars inside. Cultural wars, science wars, and wars against terrorism. Wars against poverty and wars against the poor. Wars against ignorance and wars out …
Dowd, J. Moments that matter: Educational entanglements and ecologies of action (2017) Review of Communication, 17 (1), pp. 3-17. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2016.1260761 Abstract In this article, I argue that “the freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves” is intimately entangled with processes of education. To understand this relationship, we need to articulate more fully …
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