De Vries, L.A. Politics of (in)visibility: Governance-resistance and the constitution of refugee subjectivities in Malaysia (2016) Review of International Studies, 42 (5), pp. 876-894. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210516000103 Abstract This article explores the relationality of governance and resistance in the context of the constitution of refugee subjectivities in Malaysia. Whilst recognising their precarity, the article moves away …
Heffernan, A. The Emperor’s perfect map: leadership by numbers (2016) Australian Educational Researcher, 43 (3), pp. 377-391. DOI: 10.1007/s13384-016-0206-7 Abstract This paper establishes that system-generated data profiles are influencing the work of principals in three Queensland state schools. Drawing upon Foucault’s notions of governance, as well as research emphasising performative cultures and the importance placed …
Powell, D. Governing the (un)healthy child-consumer in the age of the childhood obesity crisis (2016) Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-14. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1192530 Abstract In recent years, multinational food and drink corporations and their marketing practices have been blamed for the global childhood obesity ‘crisis’. Unsurprisingly, these corporations have been quick to …
Paatela-Nieminen, M., Itkonen, T., Talib, M.-T. Reconstructing Imagined Finnishness: The Case of Art Education through the Concept of Place (2016) International Journal of Art and Design Education, 35 (2), pp. 229-242. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12057 Abstract This multidisciplinary article presents a methodology, a research project and selected outcomes from an environmental art education course for teacher students. …
Sonu, D., Benson, J. The quasi-human child: How normative conceptions of childhood enabled neoliberal school reform in the United States (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 230-247. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168259 Abstract This paper argues that normative conceptions of the child, as a natural quasi-human being in need of guidance, enable current school reforms in the United …
Damien Page, The surveillance of teachers and the simulation of teaching, Journal Of Education Policy Vol. 32 , Iss. 1, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1209566 Full text Abstract Just as surveillance in general has become more sophisticated, penetrative and ubiquitous, so has the surveillance of teachers. Enacted through an assemblage of strategies such as learning walks, parental networks, …
Bazzul, J. The ‘subject of ethics’ and educational research OR Ethics or politics? Yes please! (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-11. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1270184 Abstract This paper outlines a theoretical context for research into ‘the subject of ethics’ in terms of how students come to see themselves as self-reflective actors. I maintain …
Chang-Kredl, S., Wilkie, G. What is it like to be a child? Childhood subjectivity and teacher memories as heterotopia (2016) Curriculum Inquiry, 46 (3), pp. 308-320. DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2016.1168262 Abstract Foucault’s notion of heterotopia offers a novel way to understand teachers’ conceptualizations of childhood, in juxtaposing adult memories of childhood with their present context of teaching …
Hull, G. Equitable relief as a relay between juridical and biopower: the case of school desegregation (2016) Continental Philosophy Review, pp. 1-24. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s11007-016-9372-6 Abstract The present paper looks at the intersection of juridical and biopower in the U.S. Supreme Court’s school desegregation cases. These cases generally deploy “equitable relief” as a …
Ragab, A. Monsters and patients: An archaeology of medicine, islam, and modernity (2016) History and Theory, 55 (4), pp. 112-130. DOI: 10.1111/hith.10832 Abstract Foucault’s analysis of the history of evolutionary thought in Les Mots et les choses introduces monsters as incomplete beings that form important steps on the evolutionary ladder toward the terminal species. Monsters …
