Analysing knowledge and power in classrooms
How can we explore how power operates in classrooms, looking at the power teachers hold through...
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Tracing power and student subjectivity in assessment. A Foucauldian perspective
[This is a blog post based on a forthcoming presentation at the British Education Research...
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Dramatic encounters: My methodological engagement with Foucault [PART 2]
This carries on from the previous blog post that explored policy reception in terms of...
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Academic perceptions of higher education assessment processes in neoliberal academia
Just published: Raaper, R. (2015). Academic perceptions of higher education assessment processes...
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Foucault, psychology and the analytics of power
Book: Derek Hook (2010) Foucault, psychology and the analytics of power (Palgrave Macmillan)...
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What did Marx mean by Thesis Eleven?
Thesis Eleven is the most famous of Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, and goes like this: ...
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Social theory and the problem of power, part 5: power and interest formation
By way of an introduction to criticisms of Lukes’ theory of power, I shall briefly present another...
Read MoreSocial theory and the problem of power, pt. 4: the 3rd dimension
It was Steven Lukes’ book Power: a radical view, which added a third dimension onto those provided by Dahl and Bachrach and Baratz. In his book, Lukes sought to address the over-emphasis on behaviour evident in the...
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What’s Marx got to do with it?
Well in terms of modern social theory, quite a lot it seems. I made this point in my recent edited...
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Social theory and the problem of power, part 3: Social power as power-over
One of the most famous definitions of power that exists in social theory is provided by Max Weber,...
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Social theory and the problem of power, pt. 2: ‘power-to’ & ‘power-over’
An examination of definitions of power provided by the Oxford English Dictionary highlights a...
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Social theory and the problem of power, pt 1
A first in a series of posts on power (this one based on the classic edited text Power in...
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