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Blog Post 29.3.15
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Power and Education
ISSN 1757-7438: Published by SAGE
Power and Education is an international peer-reviewed journal promoting critical studies of contemporary educational practice and challenging the complicit practices and assumptions of mainstream educational research. The journal is committed to providing a distinctive and comprehensive body of knowledge focusing on the relationships between the concepts of power and education in their broadest senses. Innovative and provocative work stimulating debate around the analysis, construction, deployment and discourses of power in educational practice, research and theory is particularly encouraged, as is work exploring forms of presentation and representation. Contributions from other disciplines that engage with these issues of power and education are also welcome.
Power and Education is aimed at academics, students and practitioners working in the field of education, particularly those who are dissatisfied with mainstream approaches to educational practice, research and theory and conventional forms of presentation and representation. It will appeal to authors seeking a radical and rigorous forum for their work and it publishes academic articles (about 7,000 words); shorter ‘think pieces’ (up to 3,500 words); and book reviews (up to 1,000 words).
The journal is associated with the Discourse, Power, Resistance (DPR) annual conference and conference delegates are provided with free online access to that year’s journal and all back numbers. Prof Dean Garrett, Power and Education Journal Editor, will be introducing Deborah Youdell at the beginning of the conference. Participants are invited to submit their papers to the journal.
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Blog Post: The DPR15 banner photo
20.11.14
Anna Carlile
The banner photo for this site was chosen due to its unspoken stories. What do you think it means? What does it signify? What interpretations can we make of it?
The three girls are all there because they asked to be bridesmaids at what happened to be a same-sex wedding. They are also all dual-heritage: Japanese-English; Barbadian-English, and Maltese-Scottish. They are all three known in their families to be very outspoken, strong characters. And all three have parents from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds.
Does the photo speak to any of these narratives? If not, why not? Should we be posting another picture which is more obviously about social justice, diversity, or deprivation?
Blog Post: A response to the conference resume- Athens 11.11.2014
Hatto Fischer
The subject ‘voices in urban spaces’ in terms of inequalities being overlooked (or not listened to) resonates with some important philosophical themes:
– when is the voice of reason being listened to in history (Foucault)
– the search for the human voice (Bloch, Adorno)
– the polyphonetic space in literature (Dostoevsky)
– the voice of the master and the creation of the ‘slave language’ (Bloch)
– is there space left between the negated (lived but not experienced) and the formal (written and officially recognized) reality (Derrida)
The conference resume can be applied to what European Capitals of Culture tend to become: city branding and the collective voice but a consumer of culture in the name of something else, but not dialogue with the other(s).
There are efforts under way to alter this dilemma but rarely has the voice been added to this dimension.
Back in 1994 the Greek singer Savina Yannatou interacted with poets to bring out the different voices in European poetry. That might be an interesting reference point. Indeed, I would think poetry should be included in the planned conference having such a good premise.
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