What you should know now about the NSW government and Dolores Umbridge’s evil ways

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Bedford, Alison. 2022. "What you should know now about the NSW government and Dolores Umbridge’s evil ways ." EduResearch Matters: A Voice for Australian Education Researchers. 7 November 2022.
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What you should know now about the NSW government and Dolores Umbridge’s evil ways

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AuthorBedford, Alison
Publication TitleEduResearch Matters: A Voice for Australian Education Researchers
Journal Citation7 November 2022
Number of Pages6
Year2022
PublisherAustralian Association for Research in Education
Place of PublicationAustralia
Web Address (URL)https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=14823
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A brief discussion of how Foucault's conception of schools as sites of social control and conditioning can be applied to the current NSW teacher crisis, using Hogwarts as a metaphor.

KeywordsFoucault, docile bodies, teaching, teacher shortage, Hogwarts
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ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390201. Education policy
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