University of British Columbia
Graduate Student, Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education
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Taylor Webb
Claudia Ruitenberg Michelle Stack |
About
I teach social studies at the secondary level in Vancouver, British Columbia; and am currently in my second year of MA studies at the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiries in Education, University of British Columbia.
The primary axes of my research include: critical policy analysis, discourse analysis, qualitative inquiry, and philosophy. Some of the central concepts animating my work include: fields, power, subjection, ideology, difference, becoming. The theoretical and conceptual contours of my work are primarily inspired by Deleuze & Guattari, and Foucault.
My research draws on and extends Bourdieu’s notion of ‘fieldwork in philosophy’, an “intellectual practice that might be true to lived human experience as it considers questions of philosophic import”. The primary ‘field’ targeted by my inquiry is the field of global education policy. In particular, I am interested in the intersection between policies and teachers' work. Specifically, my research focuses on BC's adoption of the ‘21st-century education’ agenda.
I am currently drafting my thesis - using discourse analysis to map teachers' work vis-á-vis '21st-century education' - and preparing to present on 'fieldwork in philosophy as critical policy analysis' at AERA 2012.
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