Joint post by Joan Forbes and Elspeth McCartney This is the first post linked to the event: BERA 2013 Conference: Social Theory and Education SIG papers - the paper is entitled: ‘Professional social capital in schools and children’s services: understanding the distribution of leadership culturally’ The co-authors of the above titled BERA2013 paper have been working together for a… Read more →
Article: Jenny Parkes & Anna Conolly (2013): Dangerous encounters? Boys’ peer dynamics and neighbourhood risk. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34:1, 94-106. This is a well-delivered article from Jenny Parkes and Anna Conolly, which examines the relationship between gendered subjectivities and social contexts (in this case schools and neighbourhoods). Here’s the abstract: This article traces links between… Read more →
[Image (c) Simon Webster] Louisa Allen’s new paper Behind the Bike Sheds: Sexual Geographies of Schooling, talks about Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, space, place and agentic materiality. Oh, and bike sheds. I mean, what more do you want? Abstract below: “This paper is concerned with extending existing understandings about the role of schools as sexualising agencies. It seeks to uncover previously undisturbed… Read more →
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