Paul Sutton, Lost souls? The demoralization of academic labour in the measured university, Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 36 , Iss. 3,2017 DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1289365 ABSTRACT In this conceptual paper, I contend that the soul of academic labour is becoming lost in performativity. Performativity, I explain, is a form of regulation and control that deploys …
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 …
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 …
Rodrigo Cordero, Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life. Routledge, 2017 Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and …
Formosinho, M., Jesus, P., Reis, C. Emancipatory and critical language education: a plea for translingual possible selves and worlds (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1237983 Abstract Language is the main resource for meaningful action, including the very formation of selves and psychosocial identities, shaped by practical norms, beliefs, and …
Lambert, K., Wright, P., Currie, J., Pascoe, R. Embodiment and becoming in secondary drama classrooms: the effects of neoliberal education cultures on performances of self and of drama texts (2016) Critical Studies in Education, pp. 1-19. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1238402 Abstract This article explores the effects of neoliberalism and performative educational cultures on secondary …
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 …
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 …
Eric Wilson, Precarious Politics, The Blackstone Review, December 2016 Review of State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey, Verso, 2015 […] Using Foucault’s notion of self-governance, Lorey helps to demonstrate how the hustler internalizes the imperative to hustle. Self-governance implies the ways in which a population is made, through a variety of …
Jordi Collet-Sabé, ‘I do not like what I am becoming but…’: transforming the identity of head teachers in Catalonia, Journal of Education Policy, Volume 32, 2017 – Issue 2. Pages 141-158 https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1253873 Abstract The aim of this article is to elucidate how a new system of school and teacher assessment in Catalonia is transforming the …
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