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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155271403321

Autore

Ball Stephen J

Titolo

Foucault as Educator / / by Stephen J. Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

9783319503028

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 88 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education, , 2211-9388

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Educational sociology

Educational Philosophy

Sociology of Education

Philosophy of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Education as benign violence -- Chapter 2 Education as critique -- Chapter 3 Education as the pedagogy of the self. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.