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 …
Jennifer Charteris, Marguerite Jones, Adele Nye, Vicente Reyes, A heterotopology of the academy: mapping assemblages as possibilised heterotopias (2017), International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30 (4): 340–53. Published online: 31 Oct 2016. https://doi.org/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 …
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 …
Amanda McKay, The accountability generation: exploring an emerging leadership paradigm for beginning principals (2018) Discourse, 39 (4): 509–20. Published online: 18 Jan 2017 https://doi.org/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 …
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 …
Michael P. A. Murphy, 2017. “Pouvoir constituant betrayed: a model of abjection in power relations” Journal of Political Power 10(1), 85–93. https://doi.org/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 sovereign exceptionalism from …
