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Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities (2017)
Journal Article
Guion Akdag, E., & Swanson, D. M. (2017). Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities. European Journal of Higher Education, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2017.1388188

This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation documents at... Read More about Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities.

Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally (2017)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M., Yu, H. L., & Mouroutsou, S. (2017). Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally. Social Inclusion, 5(3), 172-182. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i3.984

Mathematics education has been notoriously slow at interpreting inclusion in ways that are not divisive. Dominant views of educational inclusion in school mathematics classrooms have been shaped by social constructions of ability. These particularly... Read More about Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally.

Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (2017)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2017). Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. In The Implications of `New Populism' For Education. Stroud: E&E Publishing

Through a critical examination of Scottish curricular policies and practices, this chapter addresses the ways in which nationalist popul(ar)ism assembles a range of identities, discourses and representations of the Scottish nation. It argues that the... Read More about Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence.

Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (in press). Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 10(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.21423/jume-v10i1a337

More and more, standardized, efficiencies-based, and surveillance-driven modus operandi are prescriptively defining the interests of the individual and collective in terms of market-driven imperatives in consonance with the demands of the nation stat... Read More about Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis.