In perpetual motion : theories of power, educational history, and the child / Bernadette M. Baker. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Bernadette M., 1968-

Series:

Rethinking childhood ; vol. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Power (Philosophy).

Education--History.

Education.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 649 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Perpetual Motion is an "historical choreography" of power, pedagogy, and the child from the 1600s to the early 1900s. It breaks new ground by historicizing the analytics of power and motion that have interpenetrated renditions of the young. Through a detailed examination of the works of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Herbart, and G. Stanley Hall, this book maps the discursive shifts through which the child was given a unique nature, inscribed in relation to reason, imbued with an effectible interiority, and subjected to theories of power and motion. The book illustrates how developmentalist visions took hold in U.S. public school debates. It documents how particular theories of power became submerged and taken for granted as essences inside the human subject. In Perpetual Motion studiously challenges views of power as in or of the gaze, tracing how different analytics of power have been used to theorize what gazing could notice."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Historical Choreography

Ch. 1. Power, Motion, and the Child

Ch. 2. "As Rational Creatures": The Lockean Child

Ch. 3. "From the Mother's Arms to the Marriage Bed": Rousseau's Child

Ch. 4. "Hope Sinks and Work Presses": Herbart's Child

Ch. 5. "The Consecrated Cross-eyed Bear": G. Stanley Hall and Child-study's Children

Ch. 6. Moving On? Power as an End in a Self That Never Ends.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-649).

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph