The Disciplining of Education: New Languages of Power and Resistance

by Satterthwaite, Jerome; Atkinson, Elizabeth; Martin, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9781858563374
• ISBN10: 1858563372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This is the second in the Trentham series on Discourse, Power and Resistance. It explores and critiques government control over educational practice and research in the US and the UK, and examines the impact of this control on teachers and learners. Chapters illustrate the undermining of professional autonomy, the narrowing effect of 'learning outcomes', and the impact of punitive inspection regimes. Other chapters review issues arising from widening participation policies such as the effect of 'therapeutic education' on the self esteem of adult learners, and how the policing and control of student experience undermines the trust between tutor and students. The book offers a timely reminder to those engaged in shaping, delivering or experiencing the effects of current educational policy that it is all too easy to be swept away by contemporary rhetoric, without considering its impact on practitioners, researchers and learners. This book will be wholly relevant, especially for those working with adult learners. It will also be of value to students in education, policy studies and professional training. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Discipline, Direction, Control
Ending educational research, countering dystopian futures	p. 3
This IS your father's paradigm: government intrusion and the case of qualitative research in education	p. 21
Power, resistance and compliance: teacher education in the universities. A personal recollection	p. 37
Case Studies
Contested practices: learning outcomes and disciplinary understandings	p. 53
Re-thinking trust in a performative culture: the case of post-compulsory education	p. 69
'Nobody told me schools were quite like this'	p. 89
Constraining bodies: inspection as a form of hygiene	p. 103
New Moves: Widening Participation
From Freire to fear: the rise of therapeutic pedagogy in post-16 education	p. 117
Outsiders looking in or insiders looking out? Widening Participation in a post-1992 university	p. 137
Widening Participation and studentship in HE: learner perspectives and reflections: the impact of discourse	p. 153
Telling stories about learners and learning	p. 169
Constructions of learning in higher education: metaphor, epistemology and complexity	p. 181
Contributors	p. 199
Index	p. 203
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