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McCuaig, Louise; Woolcock, Liz; Stylianou, Michalis; Ng, Johan Y. Y.; Ha, Amy S. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
This paper explores the governance practices that external providers of school wellbeing programs employ in their contribution to the subjectification function of education. In neoliberal times where this 'game' of subjectification has become more open, governmentality scholars have been challenged to provide more robust insight into how…
Descriptors: Power Structure, School Activities, Well Being, Mental Health Programs
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Fairbrother, Gregory P. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This article discusses citizenship education, education policy and discourse to explore their relations with the exercise of power in society. Taking the case of 1990 and 1997 legislative debates on citizenship education policy in Hong Kong, it briefly surveys the substantive arguments favouring or opposing the retention of government controls…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Walker, Allan – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
This article aims to contribute to an understanding of principalship in Hong Kong through probing the formation and preservation of the deep leadership structures that shape its practice. Deep structures are formed partly through a dynamic relationship between constitution and culture which forms bounded "codes" of understanding, conduct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Educational History, School Administration