This article proposes a new lens or prism called childism for critiquing the deeply engrained
adultism that pervades scholarship and societies and reconstructing more age-inclusive …

A considerable amount of literature over the last two decades highlights the importance of
identity in teaching practice and teacher professional learning (eg see Beauchamp & …

Primary school teachers experience heavy workloads coping with pupils' disruptive
classroom behavior. Teachers' interventions are mostly child-oriented, with often minimal …

This paper explores how six English primary school teachers enact assessment and
attainment-focused policy and asks what this performative policy work does and whether it …

There are well documented concerns with the imposition of high stakes testing into the fabric
of school education, and there is now an increasing focus on how such tests impact …

This article applies post-structural theories of discourse, power, and performativity to trouble
dominant ways of knowing Aboriginal education in the Canadian Prairies that racialize …

This paper examines how young children experience the moral and bodily discipline of the
modern English 'on-task'primary classroom, in which they are expected to sit quietly and still …

This article explores power, resistance and agency in relation to pedagogic politics aiming to
disrupt schooling inequalities. It theorises the concept of agency in enacting politics in the …

Student teachers' experiences of professional ethics, as lived practice, need to be visualized
and verbalized to support their ability to develop an ethical practice. The aim of this article is …

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