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On the (Re)move: Exploring Governmentality in Post-Colonial Macao's Higher Education
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Vong, Sou Kuan; Lo, William Yat Wai – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper explores the governmentality in Macao's higher education (HE) by exemplifying how neoliberalism and Chinese nationalism simultaneously inform the governmental rationalities and technologies in the city. Like many other systems, neoliberalism has substantially shaped Macao's HE. However, owing to post-colonial identity, Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Nationalism
Departing from Hybridity: Higher Education Development and University Governance in Postcolonial Hong Kong
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Lo, William Yat Wai – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper aims to explain the path of higher education development and governance in (post-colonial) Hong Kong in light of the concept of hybridity. The paper begins with a historical review, delineating the establishment of major universities in Hong Kong, thereby illustrating how hybridity informs the trajectory of higher education development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Governance
Discourse, Resistance and Organization. Critical Discourse Analysis of the 'Revolt of the Humanities' in Poland
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Stankiewicz, Lukasz – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In the recent decade Polish universities have undergone a series of reforms limiting their independence from the state. This provoked protests from the humanities faculty and led to establishing organizations that actively opposed the reform. The purpose of this paper is to present a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of press articles describing a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Resistance (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
'Doing Great Things for the World': Merit and the Justice Politics of Young People Receiving an Elite Educational Scholarship
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Charles, Claire; Black, Rosalyn; Keddie, Amanda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Higher Education policy researchers have highlighted the link between merit and privileged social background with respect to who is most likely to win merit-based scholarships in Universities. Yet little is known about how students from various social backgrounds may inhabit such a scholarship. In this paper, we draw on theorisations of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Undergraduate Students, Scholarships
Globalism, Regionalism and Nationalism: The Dynamics of Student Mobility in Higher Education across the Taiwan Strait
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Lo, William Yat Wai; Chan, Sheng-Ju – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
This paper aims to broaden the conceptual approaches to understanding the complexity of student mobility in higher education (HE) across the Taiwan Strait, thereby exemplifying a contradictory mix of collaboration and competition that involves interplay among the various forces associated with global, regional and national settings. To achieve…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Nationalism, Student Mobility, Higher Education
Cultural Trauma and the Politics of Access to Higher Education in Syria
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Al Azmeh, Zeina; Dillabough, Joanne; Fimyar, Olena; McLaughlin, Colleen; Abdullateef, Shaher; Aloklah, Wissam Aldien; Mamo, Adnan Rashid; Abdulhafiz, Abdul Hafiz; Al Abdullah, Samir; Al Husien, Yasser; Al Mohamad Al Ibrahim, Ammar; Al Ibrahim, Ziad; Barmu, Taiseer; Farzat, Abdulnasser; Kadan, Bakry – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a "narrative disjuncture" within HEIs has a damaging impact not…
Descriptors: Trauma, Access to Education, Higher Education, Politics of Education
The Affective Economy of Feminist Leadership in Finnish Universities: Class-Based Knowledge for Navigating Neoliberalism and Neuroliberalism
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Morley, Louise; Lund, Rebecca W. B. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Women leaders are frequently treated as one class -- a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women's diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal…
Descriptors: Feminism, Instructional Leadership, Gender Differences, Women Administrators
Pedagogic Affect and Its Politics: Learning to Affect and Be Affected in Education
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This paper examines the critical contribution that affects as "bodily" capacities to act, engage and connect can make to children's learning in museums and schools. Drawing chiefly on empirical material collected over the course of visits by school children to Museums Victoria, Australia, and bringing a sociomaterial sensibility to bear,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Museums, Instruction
Growing up after the GFC: Responsibilisation and Mortgaged Futures
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Kelly, Peter – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
In this paper I argue that in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 young people, certain populations of young people in particular, are being made to bear a heavy burden, carry significant responsibilities for re-imagining their lives as a enterprise--an enterprise in which an "investment" in education and training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Exigency, Financial Problems, World Problems
From PISA to National Branding: Exploring Finnish Education®
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Schatz, Monika; Popovic, Ana; Dervin, Fred – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Since the recent global paradigm shift in the governance of higher education toward business and marketing, internationally competitive education is increasingly considered as an asset for governments. Consequently, governments started to invest in education branding and marketing their educational systems. In Finland, national interest in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Universities
Queer Reparations: Dialogue and the Queer Past of Schooling
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Marshall, Daniel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
This article reflects on historical homophobia within educational practice and administration as an effort to consider how we might promote dialogue around the queer past of schooling. Along the way, it provides some discussion of the significance of archival knowledge in helping us to develop an understanding of the past while also providing…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Bias, Educational History, Foreign Countries
Understanding and Interrupting Hegemonic Projects in Education: Learning from Stuart Hall
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Apple, Michael W. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Stuart Hall had a significant impact on critical analyses of rightist mobilizations in education. This is very visible in my own work, for example, in such volumes as "Official Knowledge" (2014) and "Educating the 'Right' Way" (2006). After describing an important series of lectures that Stuart Hall gave at the Havens Center…
Descriptors: Social Change, Activism, Politics of Education, Social Problems
"Acceptance of the Limits of Knowability in Oneself and Others": Performative Politics and Relational Ethics in the Primary School Classroom
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Teague, Laura – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This paper takes up Judith Butler's calls to suspend the desire to completely know the other, and discusses these in relation to the pedagogic relationship in the classroom. It draws upon existing accounts of performative reinscription as a politics to disrupt exclusionary schooling practices and discusses these alongside Butler's theories of…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Elementary School Students, Ethics, Educational Practices
Deparochializing Education: Globalization, Regionalization, and the Formation of an ASEAN Education Space
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Koh, Aaron – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
Research on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has hitherto attracted scholarly attention and debate by both regional and international scholars working in area studies, such as international relations and Asia-Pacific/Southeast Asia studies. Confined to area studies, scholarly research on ASEAN is limiting because the parameters…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Nationalism, Global Approach, International Relations