This collection of papers, uses Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational problems. They demonstrate the practical applicability of Foucault to things ‘cracked’ and things ‘intolerable’ in making them ‘not as necessary as all that’; they also offer forms of analysis which can be applied and used in other settings, and policy fields.

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