Challenging heterotopic space: a study of the Queensland school for travelling show children
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Article Title | Challenging heterotopic space: a study of the Queensland school for travelling show children |
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ERA Journal ID | 20774 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Danaher, Geoff (Author), Moriarty, Beverley (Author) and Danaher, Patrick Alan (Author) |
Journal Title | Studies in Learning Evaluation Innovation and Development |
Journal Citation | 3 (1), pp. 40-51 |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2006 |
Publisher | Central Queensland University |
Place of Publication | Rockhampton, Qld, Australia |
ISSN | 1832-2050 |
Web Address (URL) | http://sleid.cqu.edu.au/viewissue.php?id=9 |
Abstract | Michel Foucault’s (1995) work on the distribution of people, discourses and objects within geographical and institutional spaces has provided an important insight into our understanding of the emergence of contemporary society. Foucault’s substantive studies of prisons and medical and psychiatric institutions have been acutely attuned to the ways in which spaces are negotiated and lived through. Rather than conceive of relations of power or abstract ideas about social organisations as being imposed from above upon certain institutional and geographical spaces, Foucault was instead interested in ‘spaces of dispersion’ where different bodies, social forces and ways of life come into contact with one another. In particular, Foucault’s concept of heterotopia (Faubion, 1998) is geared towards considering the effects of radically different social spaces coming into contact with one another. This paper applies Foucault’s (1995) thinking about space to the experiences of the Queensland School for Travelling Show Children. While the movement of the agricultural show circuits throughout metropolitan and regional Australia has historically been significant in fostering relationships between town and country and between residential and mobile communities, the establishment in 2000 of a dedicated school to accompany these circuits has added another dimension to that relationship. Some of the authors’ qualitative data gathered in 2003 from semi-structured interviews with teachers, educational officials, parents and students are deployed to delineate the complex ways in which the school challenges received understandings of both geographical and social space. |
Keywords | Michel Foucault, heterotopia, Queensland school for travelling show children, space |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440699. Human geography not elsewhere classified |
390203. Sociology of education | |
390304. Primary education | |
Public Notes | The journal states that 'Copyright of articles is retained by authors. As an open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings.' |
Byline Affiliations | Central Queensland University |
Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xzww/challenging-heterotopic-space-a-study-of-the-queensland-school-for-travelling-show-children
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