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Foucault and Education Stephen J. Ball

Foucault and Education By Stephen J. Ball

Foucault and Education by Stephen J. Ball


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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.

Foucault and Education Summary

Foucault and Education: Disciplines and Knowledge by Stephen J. Ball

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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GOR004465155
9780415050043
0415050049
Foucault and Education: Disciplines and Knowledge by Stephen J. Ball
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1990-06-07
224
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