Foucault as educator / Stephen J. Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Stephen J., author.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in education 2211-1921

SpringerBriefs in education. Key thinkers in education 2211-937X

SpringerBriefs in education, 2211-1921. Key thinkers in education, 2211-937X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xix, 88 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

"This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. First, through some consideration of what his work says about education as a social and political practice. That is, education as a form of what Allen (2014) calls benign violence -- which operates through mundane, quotidian disciplinary technologies and expert knowledges which together construct a 'pedagogical machine'. Second, through an exploration of his 'method' as a form of critique. That is, as a way of showing that things are 'not as necessary as all that', a way of addressing what is intolerable. This suggests that critique is education of a kind. Third, through a discussion of some of Foucault's later work on subjectivity and in particular on 'the care of the self' or what we might call 'a pedagogy of the self'. Each chapter introduces and discusses some relevant examples from educational settings to illustrate and enact Foucault's analytics." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

The impossibility of education

Education as critique : "un-thinking" education

Education as the pedagogy of the self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783319503004

3319503006

OCLC:

962231309