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1 online resource (153 pages) |
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Canadian Education; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ABOUT THE CHAPTERS; 1. GRADE 12 OR DIE: 'Literacy Screening' as a Tactic of Bio-power; FORMS OF POWER IN NEOLIBERAL WELFARE REGIMES; FROM LIBERALISM TO NEOLIBERALISM AND FROM WELFARE TO WORKFARE; REDEFINING LITERACY, RESHAPING SUBJECTS; NEOLIBERAL DISCOURSES ABOUT LITERACY; LITERACY DISCOURSES IN WELFARE REFORM; LINKING LITERACY AND PRODUCTIVITY; FRAMING LITERACY-FOR-WORK, FIGURING PEOPLE; POWER IN THE WORKS; MASKED REALITIES; EFFECTS OF THE LITERACY SCREENING; REFERENCES |
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2. FOUCAULT, AUTHORITY, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF CURRICULUM REFORM IN SECONDARY SCHOOL SCIENCE EDUCATIONINTRODUCTION: THAT IVORY TOWER CRAP; THE PEDAGOGY OF CURRICULUM CHANGE IN SCHOOL SCIENCE EDUCATION; A POST-STRUCTURAL LOOK AT TEACHER EDUCATION; TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE POWER OF AUTHORITY; SPECIFIC INTELLECTUALS AND HOPE FOR CURRICULUM CHANGE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION; REFERENCES; 3. PARTNERING POWER: Questions Posed from Governmentality; PARTNERSHIPS AS MARKETIZATION; BEYOND MARKETIZATION: PARTNERSHIP AS A TECHNOLOGY OF GOVERNANCE; THEORIZING PARTNERSHIP; Problematization; Subjectification |
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ErasureCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4. SUBJECTIVITY AND DISCIPLINE: Women Teachers and Contradictory Norms of Recognition; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXT; SUBJECTIVITY OF WOMEN TEACHERS; GIVING AN ACCOUNT; CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; 5. UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD BANK'S POLICY AS NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY; PURPOSE AND APPROACH TO INQUIRY; RATIONALITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF GOVERNMENTALITY; Government at a Distance; Neoliberalism; METHODOLOGY; GOVERNMENTALITY, THE WORLD BANK, AND EFA DOCUMENTS; THE WORLD BANK AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENTALITY; RESPONSIBILITY, HARMONIZATION, AND THE FTI COMPACT |
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ResponsibilityHarmonization; The FTI Compact; EFA AND THE NEW IMPERIALISM; THE 'TRUTH' OF DEVELOPMENTALISM; AUTHORIZING THE TRUTH; CONCLUDING REMARKS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 6. TOWARDS A GENEALOGY OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES1; INTRODUCTION; HISTORICAL RESEARCH ABOUT ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN CANADA; THE LIMITS OF TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF NIETSZCHEAN-FOUCAULDIAN GENEALOGY; Parodic Modality; Dissociative Modality; Sacrificial Modality; ACADEMIC FREEDOM AS PROBLÉMATIQUE; The Subject and Power-knowledge; The Subject and Truth; The Subject and Ethics; CLOSING REMARKS |
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NOTESREFERENCES; 7. A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF 'SKILLED' IMMIGRANT WORKERS IN ONTARIO; INTRODUCTION; ABOUT THE SOURCES OF DATA; APPROACH TO ANALYZING TEXTS AND DISCOURSE; SOCIAL OBJECTIFICATION AND CATEGORIZATION; DISCUSSION; Commodification of Skills; Emergence of Immigration Studies Research; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; REFERENCES; 8. COUNTING IN, COUNTING OUT, AND ACCOUNTING FOR: The Administrative Practices of Standardized Literacy Testing; CONTEXTUALIZING THE RESEARCH; GOVERNMENTALITY: THE RATIONALITIES OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF TESTING |
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Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is an absolutely critical volume bridging a number of key areas in Canadian education - classroom politics, schools, teachers' work, higher education, and much more - with the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault. The result is illuminating, engaging, and critically provocative. The essays are carefully chosen and utilize Foucauldian concepts such as governmentality, discipline, subjectivity, and genealogy to excellent critical effect. With a skillfully crafted introduction that nicely brings the entire collection into shar |
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DATA SOURCES AND APPROACH TO INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS |
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Education -- Canada
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Education
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Canada
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Electronic book
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Gariepy, Kenneth D
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Dehli, Kari
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Ryan, James
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9789460918612 |
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9460918611 |
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