Foucault and education : putting theory to work / edited by Stephen J. Ball.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ball, Stephen J., editor.

Series:

Education and social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 225 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Specially selected by Stephen Ball, this is a collection of the best and most interesting recently published papers that 'use' Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational `problems'. Arguably the best known social theorist in the western world, Foucault's work is now widely used by researchers and writers in many fields of social science. These papers not only demonstrate the practical applicability of Foucault to things `cracked' and things `intolerable' in making them `not as necessary as all that'; they are also transposable, in that they offer forms and methods of analysis which can be taken up and applied and used in other settings, sectors, and policy fields.

Contents:

Introduction

the use and abuse of Michel Foucault in educational studies: thinking about what is true

The problem trap: implications of policy archaeology methodology for anti-bullying policies

Analysing policy in the context(s) of practice: a theoretical puzzle

Governmentality and 'fearless speech': framing the education of asylum seeker and refugee children in Australia

Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities

Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university

Writing genealogies: an exploration of Foucault's strategies for doing research

Foucault and special education needs: a 'box of tools' for analysing children's experiences of mainstreaming

'Bodies are dangerous': using feminist genealogy as policy studies methodology

Social anxiety, sex, surveillance, and the 'safe' teacher

Humanism, administration and education: the demand of documentation and the production of a new pedagogical desire

Foucault, docile bodies and post-compulsory education in Australia

Mounmentalizing disaster and wreak-construction: a case study of Haiti to rethink the privatization of public education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138040618

1138040614

OCLC:

1027032443

Publisher Number:

99982978268