Article

Subjects, networks and positions: Thinking educational guidance differently

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Citation

Usher R & Edwards R (2005) Subjects, networks and positions: Thinking educational guidance differently. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 33 (3), pp. 397-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069880500179640

Abstract
This article explores the ways in which framings drawn from post-structuralism can help to inform the understanding of guidance practices. In particular, it draws upon the later work of Foucault and Actor-Network Theory to question the centrality of the humanistic subject predominant within discourses of contemporary guidance and raise issues of power, identity and artefacts in guidance practices. Through these we suggest that guidance can be reframed as a socio-technical web of spatialised knowledge-building practices within wider actions at a distance in the ordering of the social.

Journal
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling: Volume 33, Issue 3

StatusPublished
Publication date31/08/2005
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/8969
PublisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN0306-9885

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Professor Richard Edwards

Professor Richard Edwards

Emeritus Professor, Education