Foucault and Education
Disciplines and Knowledge
Edited by Stephen J. Ball
Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge – 216 pages
Description
First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and challenging, the essays assess the relevance of Foucault's work to educational practice, and show how the application of Foucauldian analysis to education enables us to see the politics of educational reform in a new light.
Contents
Part 1: Foucault and Education 1. Foucault and Educational Research 2. Foucault Under Examination: the Crypto-Eduationalist Unmasked Part 2: History, Power and Knowledge 3. The Genealogy of the Urban Schoolteacher 4. Educational Practices and Scientific Knowledge: A Genealogical Reinterpretation of the Emergence of Physiology in Post-Revolutionary France 5. Docile Bodies Part 3: Discourse and Politics 6. Deconstructing Hegemony: Mulitcultural Policy and a Populist response 7. Management as a Moral Technology: a Luddite Analysis 8. Education and the Right's Discursive Politics: Private Versus State Schooling
Name: Foucault and Education: Disciplines and Knowledge (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Stephen J. Ball. First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control...
Categories: Cultural Theory, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary Social Theory, Phenomenology