Foucault and education : disciplines and knowledge

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Foucault and education : disciplines and knowledge

edited by Stephen J. Ball

Routledge, 1990

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415047104

Description

Foucault's work continues to have an enormous cross-disciplinary influence. This book explores some of his key ideas and concepts in relation to a variety of education contexts and issues. It argues that schools, like prisons and asylums, are often artificial and highly disciplined environments and provide excellent case studies for Foucault's concern with the technologies of power and domination and the arbitrariness of modern institutions. The essays in this collection approach the subject in different and original ways. Three use historical material to explore aspects of the constitution of modern education. Three examine the role of discourse about education in the contemporary politics of education - the discursive work of the "New Right" is of particular interest. Other contributions consider the theoretical relevance of Foucault's work to educational practice, particularly to assessment and educational research.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415050043

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Foucalt's work continues to have an enormous cross-disciplinary influence. This book explores some of his key ideas and concepts in relation to a variety of education contexts and issues. It argues that schools, like prisons and asylums, are often artificial and highly disciplined environments and provide excellent case studies for Foucalt's concern with the technologies of power and domination and the arbitrariness of modern institutions. The essays in this collection approach the subject in different and original ways. Three use historical material to explore aspects of the constitution of modern education. Three examine the role of discourse about education in the contemporary politics of education - the discursive work of the "New Right" is of particular interest. Other contributions consider the theoretical relevance of Foucalt's work to educational practice, particularly to assessment and educational research.

Table of Contents

  • Introducing Monsieur Foucault, Stephen J. Ball. FOUCAULT AND EDUCATION: Foucault and Educational Research, James D. Marshall
  • Foucault Under Examination - The Crypto-Educationalist Unmasked, Keith Hoskin. HISTORY, POWER AND KNOWLEDGE: The Genealogy of the Urban Schoolteacher, Dave Jones
  • Educational Practices and Scientific Knowledge - A Genealogical Reinterpretation of the Emergence of Physiology in Post-Revolutionary France, Richard Jones
  • Docile Bodies - Commoralities in the History of Psychiatry and Schooling, Ian Dowbiggin and Ivor Goodson. DISCOURSE AND POLITICS: De/Constructing Hegemony - Multicultural Policy and a Populist Response, John Knight et al
  • Management as Moral Technology - A Luddite Analysis, Stephen J. Ball
  • Education and the Right's Discursive Politics - Private Versus State Schooling, Jane Kenway.

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