Mobilizing Foucault
History, subjectivity and autonomous learners in nurse education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23237298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Darbyshire (Glasgow Caledonian University, corresponding author), Valerie Fleming (0000-0002-4672-4843, Glasgow Caledonian University), Valerie EM Fleming |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 263-269 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nursing Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1320-7881 • E-ISSN: 1440-1800 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2008.00410.x |
| PMID | 19076702 |
| OpenAlex | W2087610068 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
In the past 20, years the impact of progressive educational theories have become influential in nurse education particularly in relation to partnership and empowerment between lecturers and students and the development of student autonomy. The introduction of these progressive theories was in response to the criticisms that nurse education was characterized by hierarchical and asymmetrical power relationships between lecturers and students that encouraged rote learning and stifled student autonomy. This article explores how the work of Michel Foucault can be mobilized to think about autonomy in three different yet overlapping ways: as a historical event; as a discursive practice; and as part of an overall strategy to produce a specific student subject position. The implications for educational practice are that, rather than a site where students are empowered, nurse education is both a factory and a laboratory where new subjectivities are continually being constructed. This suggests that empowering practices and disciplinary practices uneasily co‐exist. Critical reflection needs to be directed not only at structural dimensions of power but also on ourselves as students and lecturers by asking a Foucauldian question: How are you interested in autonomy?
Autonomy · Discipline · Empowerment · Epistemology · General partnership · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Subjectivity · Transformative learning · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Interpretive Phenomenology
The Adult Learner
Ethics, Government and Sexual Health
The production of the psychiatric subject
The Subject and Power
Foucault
Michel Foucault
Understanding Foucault
Developing student autonomy in learning
Putting Foucault to Work in Educational Research
The Body Disciplined
Mobilizing lifelong learning
Democracy and Education
Foucault, Educational Research and the Issue of Autonomy
A Critical Theory of Adult Learning and Education
Discipline and Punish
Using Foucault's Methods
Foucault and reality
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |