Alan Hodkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Hodkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodkinson |
| SIGNATURE | HODKINSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool Hope University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1412-7083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Three Little Words
Within this article, the often-used phrase of Special Educational Needs (SENs) is examined by pivoting upon three points of analysis. These being: its history, its definition, and its possible futures. This analysis reveals the hidden deceit contained within the lexicon, history, and the present performative acts of SEN. It is argued that SEN is haunted by the ghost of extant discourse and practices, namely, those of special needs. To move forwar…
International Issues in Send and Inclusion
‘Enter the Dream Tiger’. Borges, Abbau and the Shrouded Hall of Mirrors of Educational Reflection
This article reflects upon initial teacher education programme’s employment of reflection. The article argues that the orginary ground of educational reflection, dominated by theorists such as Dewey and Schon, has been colonised by a form of ‘Total Reflection’ that is conceptualised and manufactured within the Teacher Standards and its associated discourse. Through employment of the concept of Abbau, the work of Borges and mirror theory, the arti…
The Unseeing Eye
Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Self-Unseeing,” this article seeks to tremble the picture of disability located in the pedagogical materials in English schools. By mobilizing, and then reversing, Derrida’s concept of the visor and the ghost, as well as Bentham’s Panopticon, this story reveals the power of the them, the their, and the they. In materializing the ghost of the real of disability within a utopia…
“Intertwangerlings”
The article introduces the concept of the “intertwangle,” a concept grounded within the gentle collisions of delegates at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois and the simultaneous retelling of multiple autoethnographies of such encounters. Through such encounters and “retellings,” perhaps a different way of thinking about autoethnography is developed. The article presents a story of a journey to an…
Pathologies of Professionalism
This article applies Schopenhauer's stratagems to an examination of the professional, within a performative courtroom trial of critical analysis. The Defense submission seeks to sanctify the modern professional as a solidifying force in society. The prosecution employs Schopenhauer's The Art of Being Right to bring a different definition and history to the concept of the professional. Through this application, the author hopes that you, the reade…
Fundamental British Values
In 2014, the United Kingdom Coalition Government, after the now infamous Trojan Horse incident, insisted that all children learn Fundamental British Values. Cameron, as Prime Minister, argued that such values, coupled with “muscular liberalism” would “challenge extremist ideology, exposing it for the lie that it is.” This article exists at the place of the apostrophe—as the scare mark (‘ ’) becomes an enclosure, enclosing a manufactured possessio…
Can National Identity Ever Have “Fundamental Values”
This brief article acts as an introduction to this special edition on Fundamental British Values (FBV). From the outset, it is important to state that we as a group of contributors believe it is fundamental to value Britain and all of its peoples in different and differing ways to those espoused in the Government Prevent Agenda, FBV, and the “media’s moral panics” about the terrorist within
The 2014 special educational needs and disability code of practice
This article reveals the Foucauldian docile body manufactured within the Department for Education’s special educational needs and disability code of practice 2014 through employment of a theoretical lens of embodiment and an analytical focus on only three words. In problematizing the concepts of support, employment and independence, we seek to upend this docile body juxtaposing such against the active ‘non-productive’ disabled body. We conclude t…
Online Sexual Grooming
The majority of current grooming research makes no distinctions between male and female targets. This study therefore aims to provide an initial attempt to rectify this. Thematic analysis was used to analyze eight transcripts from the Perverted Justice website, revealing five main themes: positivity, emotional connection, self-protection, sexual content, and arranging to meet offline. Unlike O'Connell (2003), themes were not consecutive. While no…
“Safe Spaces” in Education
This article critically analyses the concept of space in generality and specifically the employment of safe space as an educational concept. In addition, by employing Derrida's notion of the arrivant, the article provides an account of the author's frustrations during his analysis of space and of his attempts to reorientate his quantitative writings to ones that are more autobiographical in nature. The argument emplaced in the article is that saf…
Colonization, Disability, and the Intranet
The article analyzes teacher's emplacement of the image of disability within school's intranet sites in England. The image unearthed within such sites was problematic as it did not display a positive or realistic image of disability or disabled people. Within the article historical archaeology and colonialism are employed as theoretic framework to interpret this artifact of disability. The article also provides an ethnographic subscript to the cr…
All present and correct?’ Exclusionary inclusion within the English educational system
This paper critically analyses discourses of educational inclusion in England through the lens of Derridean deconstruction. Linking Derrida’s thesis on writing and speech to presence and absence, the paper contends that inclusion acts as a suppléance to previous policies of integration. The paper suggests that, for many teachers, inclusion is grounded upon the forced absence of children rather than upon any notions of equality or justice
For Pity's Sake
This paper offers a critique of transnational aspects of ‘inclusion,’ one of those global education buzzwords that as Slee (2009) puts it, say everything but say nothing. It starts off by trying to compare Indian and English usages and attitudes at the level of teacher discourse, and notes the impossibility of any ‘authentic’ translation, given the very different cultural contexts and histories. In response to these divergences, the authors under…
Inclusion
Within this article the definition of inclusion is critically explored in relation to the previous New Labour government's educational policy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This exploration demonstrates that inclusion rather than being located in terms of equality should actually be observed as a complex ideological construct which legitimised the process of the subordination and domination of vulnerable groups in our soc…
Towards a Theory of Santa
This account of the cultural phenomenon of Santa/Father Christmas draws on the polarities that attend the rituals of Santa/Christmas: secular/religious; commodity/gift; sacred/profane; material/spiritual etc., while also arguing that these dichotomies act together, rather than as simple oppositions. The account also draws on empirical work by the authors and a wider group of practitioner‐researchers on how young children construct and reason with…
All present and correct?’ Exclusionary inclusion within the English educational system
This paper critically analyses discourses of educational inclusion in England through the lens of Derridean deconstruction. Linking Derrida’s thesis on writing and speech to presence and absence, the paper contends that inclusion acts as a suppléance to previous policies of integration. The paper suggests that, for many teachers, inclusion is grounded upon the forced absence of children rather than upon any notions of equality or justice
Towards a Theory of Santa
This account of the cultural phenomenon of Santa/Father Christmas draws on the polarities that attend the rituals of Santa/Christmas: secular/religious; commodity/gift; sacred/profane; material/spiritual etc., while also arguing that these dichotomies act together, rather than as simple oppositions. The account also draws on empirical work by the authors and a wider group of practitioner‐researchers on how young children construct and reason with…
Inclusion
Within this article the definition of inclusion is critically explored in relation to the previous New Labour government's educational policy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This exploration demonstrates that inclusion rather than being located in terms of equality should actually be observed as a complex ideological construct which legitimised the process of the subordination and domination of vulnerable groups in our soc…
For Pity's Sake
This paper offers a critique of transnational aspects of ‘inclusion,’ one of those global education buzzwords that as Slee (2009) puts it, say everything but say nothing. It starts off by trying to compare Indian and English usages and attitudes at the level of teacher discourse, and notes the impossibility of any ‘authentic’ translation, given the very different cultural contexts and histories. In response to these divergences, the authors under…
Inclusion
Within this article the definition of inclusion is critically explored in relation to the previous New Labour government's educational policy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This exploration demonstrates that inclusion rather than being located in terms of equality should actually be observed as a complex ideological construct which legitimised the process of the subordination and domination of vulnerable groups in our soc…
Towards a Theory of Santa
This account of the cultural phenomenon of Santa/Father Christmas draws on the polarities that attend the rituals of Santa/Christmas: secular/religious; commodity/gift; sacred/profane; material/spiritual etc., while also arguing that these dichotomies act together, rather than as simple oppositions. The account also draws on empirical work by the authors and a wider group of practitioner‐researchers on how young children construct and reason with…
All present and correct?’ Exclusionary inclusion within the English educational system
This paper critically analyses discourses of educational inclusion in England through the lens of Derridean deconstruction. Linking Derrida’s thesis on writing and speech to presence and absence, the paper contends that inclusion acts as a suppléance to previous policies of integration. The paper suggests that, for many teachers, inclusion is grounded upon the forced absence of children rather than upon any notions of equality or justice
Colonization, Disability, and the Intranet
The article analyzes teacher's emplacement of the image of disability within school's intranet sites in England. The image unearthed within such sites was problematic as it did not display a positive or realistic image of disability or disabled people. Within the article historical archaeology and colonialism are employed as theoretic framework to interpret this artifact of disability. The article also provides an ethnographic subscript to the cr…
“Safe Spaces” in Education
This article critically analyses the concept of space in generality and specifically the employment of safe space as an educational concept. In addition, by employing Derrida's notion of the arrivant, the article provides an account of the author's frustrations during his analysis of space and of his attempts to reorientate his quantitative writings to ones that are more autobiographical in nature. The argument emplaced in the article is that saf…
Online Sexual Grooming
The majority of current grooming research makes no distinctions between male and female targets. This study therefore aims to provide an initial attempt to rectify this. Thematic analysis was used to analyze eight transcripts from the Perverted Justice website, revealing five main themes: positivity, emotional connection, self-protection, sexual content, and arranging to meet offline. Unlike O'Connell (2003), themes were not consecutive. While no…
The 2014 special educational needs and disability code of practice
This article reveals the Foucauldian docile body manufactured within the Department for Education’s special educational needs and disability code of practice 2014 through employment of a theoretical lens of embodiment and an analytical focus on only three words. In problematizing the concepts of support, employment and independence, we seek to upend this docile body juxtaposing such against the active ‘non-productive’ disabled body. We conclude t…
Fundamental British Values
In 2014, the United Kingdom Coalition Government, after the now infamous Trojan Horse incident, insisted that all children learn Fundamental British Values. Cameron, as Prime Minister, argued that such values, coupled with “muscular liberalism” would “challenge extremist ideology, exposing it for the lie that it is.” This article exists at the place of the apostrophe—as the scare mark (‘ ’) becomes an enclosure, enclosing a manufactured possessio…
Can National Identity Ever Have “Fundamental Values”
This brief article acts as an introduction to this special edition on Fundamental British Values (FBV). From the outset, it is important to state that we as a group of contributors believe it is fundamental to value Britain and all of its peoples in different and differing ways to those espoused in the Government Prevent Agenda, FBV, and the “media’s moral panics” about the terrorist within
The Unseeing Eye
Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Self-Unseeing,” this article seeks to tremble the picture of disability located in the pedagogical materials in English schools. By mobilizing, and then reversing, Derrida’s concept of the visor and the ghost, as well as Bentham’s Panopticon, this story reveals the power of the them, the their, and the they. In materializing the ghost of the real of disability within a utopia…
“Intertwangerlings”
The article introduces the concept of the “intertwangle,” a concept grounded within the gentle collisions of delegates at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois and the simultaneous retelling of multiple autoethnographies of such encounters. Through such encounters and “retellings,” perhaps a different way of thinking about autoethnography is developed. The article presents a story of a journey to an…
Pathologies of Professionalism
This article applies Schopenhauer's stratagems to an examination of the professional, within a performative courtroom trial of critical analysis. The Defense submission seeks to sanctify the modern professional as a solidifying force in society. The prosecution employs Schopenhauer's The Art of Being Right to bring a different definition and history to the concept of the professional. Through this application, the author hopes that you, the reade…
International Issues in Send and Inclusion
‘Enter the Dream Tiger’. Borges, Abbau and the Shrouded Hall of Mirrors of Educational Reflection
This article reflects upon initial teacher education programme’s employment of reflection. The article argues that the orginary ground of educational reflection, dominated by theorists such as Dewey and Schon, has been colonised by a form of ‘Total Reflection’ that is conceptualised and manufactured within the Teacher Standards and its associated discourse. Through employment of the concept of Abbau, the work of Borges and mirror theory, the arti…
Three Little Words
Within this article, the often-used phrase of Special Educational Needs (SENs) is examined by pivoting upon three points of analysis. These being: its history, its definition, and its possible futures. This analysis reveals the hidden deceit contained within the lexicon, history, and the present performative acts of SEN. It is argued that SEN is haunted by the ghost of extant discourse and practices, namely, those of special needs. To move forwar…
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