Sports’ disciplinary legacy and the challenge of ‘coaching differently’

Be empowering. Be athlete-centered. Be autonomy supportive. These are three related topics currently being promoted by sport psychologists and sport pedagogists in an effort to recognize athletes’ unique qualities and developmental differences and make coaching more holistic and coaches more considerate. This has led us to ask, how likely are such initiatives to lead to coaches putting their athletes at the center of the coaching process given that coaches’ practices have largely been formed through relations of power that subordinate and objectify athletes’ bodies through the regular application of a range of disciplinary techniques and instruments [e.g. Barker-Ruchti, N., &; Tinning, R. (2010). Foucault in leotards: Corporeal discipline in women's artistic gymnastics. Sociology of Sport Journal, 27, 229–250; Heikkala, J. (1993). Discipline and excel: Techniques of the self and body and the logic of competing. Sociology of Sport Journal, 10, 397–412; Gearity, B., &; Mills, J. P. (2012). Discipline and punish in the weight room. Sports Coaching Review, 1, 124–134]? In other words, to try to develop athlete-centered coaches capable of coaching in ways that will empower their athletes without also problematizing the discursive formation of coaches’ practices concerns us [Denison, J., &; Mills, J. P. (2014). Planning for distance running: Coaching with Foucault. Sports Coaching Review, 3, 1–16]. Put differently: how can athlete empowerment initiatives be anything more than rhetoric within a disciplinary framework that normalizes maximum coach control? It is this question that we intend to explore in this paper. More specifically, as Foucauldians, we will argue that coaching with greater consideration for athletes’ unique qualities and developmental differences needs to entail coaching in a less disciplinary way and with an awareness and appreciation of the many unseen effects that disciplinary power can have on coaches’ practices and athletes’ bodies.     

Social Workers and the Judicial System

Much of social work practice is affected by the law and many social workers can expect some involvement with the legal/judicial system during the course of their work. This paper reviews social workers' historical commitment to justice for their clients and in a broad societal context and examines current and evolving roles of social workers vis-ä-vis the rapidly changing judical system. Based on the increasing involvement of social workers in legal and justice-related functions, specific proposals are offered for upgrading the legal/judical content of social work education.     

Increasing the supply of secondary teachers in sub‐Saharan Africa: a stakeholder assessment of policy options in six countries

Over the next decade many countries of sub‐Saharan Africa will face a demand for qualified secondary school teachers that current systems for teacher recruitment, training, deployment and retention will be unable to meet. While strategies for increasing teacher supply to meet this shortage have been suggested, less attention has been given to investigating the acceptability of these potential solutions by those educators closest to the school and classroom level and who often serve as gatekeepers to policy implementation. Kingdon’s multiple streams model is the framework used in this study to assess the feasibility of key strategies widely offered as possible solutions to resolve the projected teacher shortage. This study investigated the responses of 114 secondary school teachers, headteachers and education officials across six countries to policy options for increasing teacher supply. While none of the groups supported options to increase the supply through changed teacher training, there was support among all three groups for options that affected retention, including increased in‐service training and distance education, more mentorship for new teachers and more opportunities for teachers to network with each other. These findings suggest that policy‐makers in sub‐Saharan African countries need to build political support among education stakeholders to find the most feasible and viable solutions to address the large teacher shortages through both increasing supply and retention.     

论教育主体的生成与消亡——基于福柯的后现代主义主体解构观

米歇尔·福柯透过后现代主义及后结构主义视角提出了主体解构观念。通过解构主体,福柯深刻揭露了生活在现代社会中的包括教育领域中的"人"的生存现状。福柯通过对主体进行"考古"性的挖掘和考察,最终形成了他的关于主体实质和命运的独特见解和理论体系。在福柯看来,主体具有历史性,是知识、权力、道德的奴役化和实践化的产物,现代社会的知识型决定着主体必将消亡的命运。基于这些思考,他最终喊出了"人死了"和"主体的消亡"的口号,这体现了一种后现代主义主体解构观,也表达了福柯对现代社会中人的问题的担忧。通过运用福柯的主体解构观来观照教育主体,揭露教育主体的真相,描述教育主体的"生产"过程,阐释教育主体必将消亡的趋势,对于教育中主体的真正解放,回归人的本真,具有重大的理论价值和实践意义。     

A heterotopology of the academy: mapping assemblages as possibilised heterotopias

Heterotopias are counter-sites of enacted utopias through which reality is simultaneously represented, contested and inverted. They are physical or mental spaces where, although norms of behaviours are suspended, there are connections with a plethora of other spaces. This article constructs a collective biography as a heterotopology of the academy. Academic subjectivities are produced and often constrained within powerful Higher Education discourses. Constructing an affective assemblage of becomings as a heterotopology, the authors deploy poststructural philosophy to re-story academic life experiences and conceptualise agency in the academy. Taking licence with the notion of academicity and heterotopia, the article describes how spaces in the measured university can be deterritorialised through generative lines of flight. An affective assemblage is presented that ruptures the discursive orientation of category boundary work where academics are constituted as ‘productive metric-minded knowledge workers’. The collective biography research approach facilitates a mapping of affective cartographies as a heterotopology and a critique of the discursive production of selves. The subjectivations of identity politics in matricised assemblages may be, even if momentarily, evaded, refused and agentically resisted.     

福柯与尼采对现代社会异化现象的批判——《规训与惩罚》与《论道德的谱系》的主题分析

福柯和尼采批判了现代工具理性对人的规训这种异化现象。福柯的《规训与惩罚》可以看做对尼采《论道德的谱系》的第2章整体思想的一个继承和发展,尼采在这一部分主要谈基督教的良知的心理学,福柯以尼采的分析为基础,将尼采的思考运用到欧洲现代社会的分析,福柯指出:欧洲古典时期的社会是全景敞视主义的规训社会,现代监狱是对全景敞视主义规训机制的深化,规训社会不断生产出受规训的个体。     

知识与权力——福柯话语理论之中心

福柯是20世纪最重要的思想家之一。他的话语理论吸取了尼采和马克思的哲学思想，用考古学与系谱学的方法对知识话语与权力话语进行了互联性研究，其著作的中心在于揭示话语的权力与权力的话语，在于发现知识的政治学。