Postfoucauldian analysis of the discourse on education. Workshop remarks Cover Image

Postfoucauldian analysis of the discourse on education. Workshop remarks
Postfoucauldian analysis of the discourse on education. Workshop remarks

Author(s): Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak
Subject(s): Education, Contemporary Philosophy, School education, Evaluation research
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: postfoucauldian discourse analysis; Michel Foucault; discourse on education; middle school (Poland);

Summary/Abstract: Postfoucauldian discourse analysis is a vigorously developing approach to discourse studies focusing on the analysis of power, discourse, knowledge and social practice. This comprises studies deriving from Michel Foucault’s thought, reinterpreting it, however, with the aim at application to an analysis of empirical data, also from the field of pedagogy and education. The purpose of this paper is to present main concepts and categories of postfoucauldian discourse analysis (e.g. enunciation, discursive formation, discursive practice, procedures for the control of discourse, dispositive, regime of truth) and guidelines for conducting research on the example of an analysis of chosen public texts concerning the debate on liquidation of middle schools in Poland as a result of the reform of education carried out by Law and Justice’ government.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 197-224
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English