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Building from J.L. Austin's concept of ‘performative,’ this essay explores the production of subjectivity and of educational subjects by applying important work from Judith Butler on Foucault, Derrida, and as centrally illustrative, through an analysis of sex and gender. Given this analytical framework, the turn is then to “queer performativity” and the possibility of performative power in pedagogy. The last draws assistance from Valerie Walkerdine, Homi Bhabha and especially James Donald.
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Kohli, W. Performativity and Pedagogy: The Making of Educational Subjects. Studies in Philosophy and Education 18, 319–326 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005284924565
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