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Part I: Introduction Social theory and education research: An introduction (Mark Murphy) Social theory and methodology in education research: From conceptualisation to operationalisation (Mark Murphy and Cristina Costa) Part II: Foucault Foucault and his acolytes: Discourse, power and ethics (Julie Allan) Retooling school surveillance research: Foucault and (post)panopticism (Andrew Hope) Using Foucault to examine issues of girls education in a religiously driven postcolonial-security state (Ali Sameer) Part III: Habermas Jrgen Habermas: Educations increasingly recognized hero (Terence Lovat) Between the state and the street: Habermas and education governance (Mark Murphy) Applying Habermas theory of communicative action in an analysis of recognition of prior learning (Fredrik Sandberg) Part IV: Bourdieu Bourdieu and educational research: Thinking tools, relational thinking, beyond epistemological innocence (Shaun Rawolle and Bob Lingard) Research in Christian Academies: Perspectives from Bourdieu (Elizabeth Green) Bourdieu applied: Exploring perceived parental influence on adolescent students educational choices for studies in higher education (Irene Kleanthous) Part V: Derrida Derrida and educational research: An introduction (Jones Irwin) `Derrida applied: Derrida meets Dracula in the geography classroom (Christine Winter) Engaging with student teachers on reflective writing: Reclaiming writing (Duncan Mercieca)
