Supporting research in Education Studies
Supporting research in Education Studies
This presentation seeks to disentangle some of the many inequality issues in the realms of gender, ‘race’ and social class in higher education. The opening discussion sets the scene by using a hopeful constructivist theory to critique education and schooling as important sites where social problems and social inequalities are…
This paper explores the potential of eco-pedagogies for fostering new environmental and consumption imaginaries. It departs from the Anthropocene to posthumanism, using Karen Barad’s posthumanist quantum entanglements as a way to understand how our lives are enmeshed with commercial and carbon consumption cultures. Two case studies are presented aiming to…
‘And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work ‘em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow!’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner…
This paper offers considerations of how political discourse is intertwined with education. Utilising Foucault’s (1987) notion of discourse we explore its usefulness for producing an analysis of discursive formations which shape education for driving the economy, developing human capital and as a product. Using Foucauldian theory and terminology we follow…
This proposed paper explores how the changing nature of the subject of education studies is constituted by an amalgam of policies, pedagogies, political ideologies and wider global pressures on systems of education, which demand competitiveness and versatility on the subject. Firstly, we theorise the elements that compose this amalgam as…