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1794
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853

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Thomas S. Popkewitz is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, focusing particularly on education, political science, international relations, and sociology.

Their work engages with multiple main topics, including:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Political theory and Gramsci
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies

Popkewitz has contributed articles to various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • Curriculo sem Fronteiras
  • European Educational Research Journal
  • International Journal of Educational Research
  • International Journal of Inclusive Education

Recent publications by Popkewitz include:

  • The paradoxes of practical research: The good intentions of inclusion that exclude and abject, 2020, European Educational Research Journal
  • International assessments as the comparative desires and the distributions of differences: infrastructures and coloniality, 2022, Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • Comparative Reasoning, Fabrication, and International Education Assessments: Desires about Nations, Society, and Populations, 2022, International Journal of Educational Research
  • Infrastructures and phantasmagrams of inclusions that exclude: international student assessments, 2023, International Journal of Inclusive Education

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Popkewitz include:

  • Weili Zhao
  • Sverker Lindblad
  • Daniel Pettersson
  • Miguel Á. Pereyra
  • Junzi Huang

Thomas S. Popkewitz was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Foucault's Challenge: Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education

    Thomas S. Popkewitz;Marie T. Brennan

  • Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits

    Thomas Popkewitz;Lynn Fendler

  • Struggling for the Soul: The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform: Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Critical Theories in Education : Changing Terrains of Knowledge and Politics

    Thomas S. Popkewitz;Lynn Fendler

  • A Political Sociology of Educational Reform: Power/Knowledge in Teaching, Teacher Education and Research

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • The Alchemy of the Mathematics Curriculum: Inscriptions and the Fabrication of the Child

    Thomas Popkewitz

  • Educational Governance and Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Some conceptual difficulties and problematics in policy and research1

    Thomas Popkewitz;Sverker Lindblad

  • The production of reason and power: Curriculum history and intellectual traditions

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Cultural History and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Restructuring of Social and Political Theory in Education: Foucault and a Social Epistemology of School Practices.

    Thomas S. Popkewitz;Marie Brennan

  • Teacher Education and the Professional Perspectives of Student Teachers.

    B. Robert Tabachnick;Thomas S. Popkewitz;Kenneth M. Zeichner

  • Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research: The Social Functions of the Intellectual

    Eric Hoyle;Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Dewey, Vygotsky, and the Social Administration of the Individual: Constructivist Pedagogy as Systems of Ideas in Historical Spaces

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Estatísticas educacionais como um sistema de razão: relações entre governo da educação e inclusão e exclusão sociais

    Tom Popkewitz;Sverker Lindblad

  • Educational knowledge : changing relationships between the state, civil society, and the educational community

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • A Changing Terrain of Knowledge and Power: A Social Epistemology of Educational Research

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • The Formation of School Subjects : The Struggle for Creating an American Institution

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Governing the Child and Pedagogicalization of the Parent

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Professionalization in Teaching and Teacher Education: Some Notes on Its History, Ideology, and Potential.

    Thomas S. Popkewitz

  • Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education

    Marjorie Roemer;Vandana Sharma;Henry Giroux

Frequent Co-Authors

Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Kenneth M. Zeichner
Kenneth M. Zeichner University of Washington
Henry A. Giroux
Henry A. Giroux McMaster University

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