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Author Fejes, Andreas

Title Foucault and Lifelong Learning : Governing the Subject
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chapter 1 Mobilizing Foucault in studies of lifelong learning; Section 1: Governing policy subjects; Chapter 2 Actively seeking subjects?; Chapter 3 Understanding the mechanisms of neoliberal control: Lifelong learning, flexibility and knowledge capitalism; Chapter 4 Our 'will to learn' and the assemblage of a learning apparatus; Chapter 5 The operation of knowledge and construction of the lifelong learning subject; Chapter 6 The reason of reason: Cosmopolitanism, social exclusion and lifelong learning
Chapter 7 Historicizing the lifelong learner: Governmentality and neoliberal ruleSection 2: Governing pedagogical subjects; Chapter 8 Self-governance in the job search: Regulative guidelines in job seeking; Chapter 9 Adult learner identities under construction; Chapter 10 Recognition of prior learning as a technique of governing; Chapter 11 Pathologizing and medicalizing lifelong learning: A deconstruction; Chapter 12 Motiv
Summary Over the last twenty years there has been increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault in the social sciences and in relation to education in particular. This, the first book to draw on his work to consider lifelong learning, explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong learning to the wider societies of which they are a part
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Author Nicoll, Katherine
ISBN 9780203933411
0203933419
1281102555
9781281102553