Foucault's Challenge

by Popkewitz, Thomas S.; Brennan, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780807736760
• ISBN10: 0807736767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

In this groundbreaking volume, the editors have brought together prominent international contributors to examine the relevance of Foucauldian thought on educational theory, practice, and institutional life. The result is a diverse and intellectually compelling collection that offers broad and engaging analyses of how power and knowledge are configured in the practices and norms of schooling. This exciting new text not only provides a critical examination of the significance of Foucauldian thought for education, but also discusses how Foucault's theories are arrayed in the everyday life of schools.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Restructuring of Social and Political Theory in Education: Foucault and a Social Epistemology of School Practices	p. 3
What Is It Impossible to Think? A Genealogy of the Educated Subject	p. 39
A Catalog of Possibilities: Foucaultian History of Truth and Education Research	p. 64
A History of the Present on Children's Welfare in Sweden: From Frobel to Present-Day Decentralization Projects	p. 91
"Childhood" in the Emergence and Spread of U.S. Public Schools	p. 117
The Construction of the Body Through Sex Education Discourse Practices	p. 144
Born-Again Teaching? Governmentality, "Grammar," and Public Schooling	p. 173
The Deployment of Information Technology in the Field of Education and the Augmentation of the Child	p. 205
Disciplining Bodies: On the Continuity of Power Relations in Pedagogy	p. 231
Performing the Self: Constructing Written and Curricular Fictions	p. 255
School Marks: Education, Domination, and Female Subjectivity	p. 278
Genealogy and Progressive Politics: Reflections on the Notion of Usefulness	p. 297
Looking for Sentient Life in Discursive Practices: The Question of Human Agency in Critical Theories and School Research	p. 316
Intellectuals at Work and in Power: Toward a Foucaultian Research Ethic	p. 348
About the Editors and the Contributors	p. 369
Index	p. 373
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