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Stephen J. Ball is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.Specially selected by Stephen Ball, this is a collection of the best and most interesting recently published papers that ‘use’ Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational ‘problems’. Arguably the best known social theorist in the western world, Foucault’s work is now widely used by researchers and writers in many fields of social science. These papers not only demonstrate the practical applicability of Foucault to things ‘cracked’ and things ‘intolerable’ in making them ‘not as necessary as all that’; they are also transposable, in that they offer forms and methods of analysis which can be taken up and applied and used in other settings, sectors, and policy fields.
This collection of papers, uses Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational problems.
Introduction: The use and abuse of Michel Foucault in Educational Studies 1. The problem trap: Implications of policy archaeology methodology and drawing implications for anti-bullying policies 2. Analysing policy in the context(s) of practice: a theoretical puzzle 3. Governmentality and ‘fearless speech’: framing the education of asylum seeker and refugee children in Australia 4. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities 5. Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university 6. Writing Genealogies: an exploration of Foucault's strategies for doing research 7. Foucault and Special Educational Needs: A 'Box of Tools' for Analysing Children's Experiences of Mainstreaming 8. "Bodies are Dangerous": Using Feminist Genealogy as Policy Studies Methodology 9. Social anxiety, sex, surveillance, and the 'safe' teacher 10. Humanism, Administration and Education: The Demand of Documentation and the Production of a New Pedagogical Desire 11. Foucault, Docile Bodies and Post-Compulsory Education in Australia 12. Monumentalizing Disaster and Wreak-construction: A Case Study of Haiti to Rethink the Privatization