Foucault and education : disciplines and knowledge / edited by Stephen J. Ball. - viii, 213 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foucault and educational research / Foucault under examination : the crypto-educationalist unmasked / The genealogy of the urban schoolteacher / Educational practices and scientific knowledge : a genealogical reinterpretation of the emergence of physiology in post-Revolutionary France / Docile bodies : commonalities in the history of psychiatry and schooling / Deconstructing hegemony : multicultural policy and a populistresponse / Management as moral technology : a Luddite analysis / Education and the Right's discursive politics : private versus state schooling / Stephen J. Ball -- James D. Marshall -- Keith Hoskin -- Dave Jones -- Richard Jones -- Ivor Goodson and Ian Dowbiggin -- John Knight, Richard Smith, Judyth Sachs -- Stephen J. Ball -- Jane Kenway. Introducing Monsieur Foucault / Part I. Foucault and education -- Part II. History, power and knowledge -- Part III. Discourse and politics --

An examination of the applications of Foucaultian social analysis to education. The text argues that schools are often artificial, highly disciplined environments which provide grounds for case studies for Foucault's concern with the technologies of power and arbitrariness.

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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984


Education--Philosophy.
Education--Social aspects

LB880.F682 / F68 1990

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