Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Dr. Webb’s work examines and critiques how education rationalizes and produces ‘governable subjects’ within liberal and neo-liberal normative architectures. To do this, he examines the intentions (or desires) and enactments in policy and treat these as material productions rather than as only representations of discourse and/or ‘ideology’. Here, the locus of his work is interested in micropolitics and various subjectivizations that are produced during policy events.
Contributions:
Outstanding Book Award of the Qualitative Research SIG. American Educational Research Association (AERA). 2010. (Webb, Teacher Assemblage, 2009)
Webb, P. T. & Gulson, K. (2015). A geophilosophy of education policy. Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Webb, P. T. (2010). Curriculum policy in an Afrocentric school: Care of the self during globalization. (SSHRC, Standard Research Grant, $105,785)
Webb, P. T. (2014, March). Policy scientificity 3.0. Keynote Plenary of the Globalization and Education SIG at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, USA division), Toronto, Canada.
Webb, P. T. (2013, December). The dogmatic image of education and the production of the new. Keynote Plenary at the Deleuze. Guattari. Schizoanalysis. Education. Conference, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.
Keywords:
Policy; Governmentality; Raciologies; Fieldwork in philosophy.
taylor.webb@ubc.ca
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