Introduction: The use and abuse of Michel Foucault in Educational Studies1. The problem trap: Implications of policy archaeology methodology and drawing implications for anti-bullying policies2. Analysing policy in the context(s) of practice: a theoretical puzzle3. Governmentality and ‘fearless speech’: framing the education of asylum seeker and refugee children in Australia4. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities5. Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university6. Writing Genealogies: an exploration of Foucault's strategies for doing research7. Foucault and Special Educational Needs: A 'Box of Tools' for Analysing Children's Experiences of Mainstreaming8. "Bodies are Dangerous": Using Feminist Genealogy as Policy Studies Methodology9. Social anxiety, sex, surveillance, and the 'safe' teacher10. Humanism, Administration and Education: The Demand of Documentation and the Production of a New Pedagogical Desire11. Foucault, Docile Bodies and Post-Compulsory Education in Australia12. Monumentalizing Disaster and Wreak-construction: A Case Study of Haiti to Rethink the Privatization
Stephen J. Ball is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.