| Description |
viii, 213 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introducing Monsieur Foucault / Stephen J. Ball -- Part I. Foucault and education -- Foucault and educational research / James D. Marshall -- Foucault under examination : the crypto-educationalist unmasked / Keith Hoskin -- Part II. 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 : commonalities in the history of psychiatry and schooling / Ivor Goodson and Ian Dowbiggin -- Part III. Discourse and politics -- Deconstructing hegemony : multicultural policy and a populistresponse / John Knight, Richard Smith, Judyth Sachs -- Management as moral technology : a Luddite analysis / Stephen J. Ball -- Education and the Right's discursive politics : private versus state schooling / Jane Kenway |
| Summary |
An examination of the applications of Foucaultian social analysis to education. The text argues that schools are often artificial, highly disciplined environments which provide grounds for case studies for Foucault's concern with the technologies of power and arbitrariness |
| Analysis |
Education Theories of Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 |
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Education Theories of Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Ball, Stephen J.
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| LC no. |
89049384 |
| ISBN |
0415047102 |
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0415050049 (paperback) |
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