• Next Reading: The Notion of the ‘Pregnant Teenager’

    Dear all   As discussed in the last meeting I’d like to change the published reading list for our last session on Thursday 2 April and propose the following paper:   ‘Sex, Science and Educational Research: the unholy trinity’ by Ian Stronach, Jo Frankham and Sheila Stark   This can be directly downloaded as a…

  • This Week’s Reading: Blogging and Teacher Identity

    This week’s reading is by April Luehmann, A. 2008, ‘Using Blogging in support of teacher professional identity development: a case study’ in the Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17.3:287-337.
 ‘This is a fascinating article that provides as case study of how one science teacher used a weblog to reflect on her practice which, it is…

  • Panopti-con-artist

    I really enjoyed reading the Foucault extract, and it was a welcome revisit to this territory. I recall mentioning during the session last week that there could be a critical problem at the centre of Foucault’s theories about power, society and the individual. Throughout, there is the constant sense that power is something that exists…

  • Living the Dream

    However tempting it might be to suggest that Benthamite ideas – or the Foucaltian mis-interpretation of them, inspire or pervades the ‘philosophy’ of the Education Faculty here at Edge Hill. We are always being asked to theorise and Foucault is clearly the man – however after reading the extract I’m beginning to feel convinced that…

  • Introducing Foucault

    I first came across Foucault about 10 years ago via my partner who was completing a thesis around employee resistance to management control, and was beginning to venture into Foucaudian analysis of relationships in organisations.  I gleamed, third hand, some of the central tenets of this French philosopher, and found myself using my weakly informed…