This article attempts to rethink agency for childhood studies, drawing on Foucault's
theorisations of power, Deleuze and Guattari's concept of assemblage, Bennett's vital …

This paper contributes to the recent turn within Children's Geographies concerned with
understanding and illuminating educational inequalities. The focus is upon pupils assigned …

This chapter outlines the impact of the neoliberal paradigm on how UK schools experience
surveillance and implement their security and disciplinary procedures. Marketization leading …

By taking both pupils' and teachers' actions as the point of departure, this study aimed to
understand governance within a primary school classroom. Video footage was recorded in …

While many historically contingent barriers to individual liberty have been deconstructed, I
argue that current education policy continues to maintain a discriminatory educational milieu …

The global shift toward neoliberalism, which frames the education of young children through
markets, credentials, and individualism, creates a range of challenges for those who call for …

ABSTRACT Drawing upon Judith Butler's conceptualisation of performativity and
subjectification, this article explores the effects of different kinds of counter political action to …

This chapter introduces a 'micro-level'spatial lens as the study of formal educational settings
and outlines the value of a micro-level analysis upon educational inequalities. We start with …

This thesis reports findings from a critical ethnographic study that explored the perpetuating
disparity between rural and urban English language education (ELE) under neoliberalised …

This thesis draws on the experiences of 21 young people transitioning from a special school
for students with labels of moderate learning difficulty, to further education college. Taking a …