Foucault as Educator
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 operat
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Stephen J. Ball
Foucault as Educator
123
SpringerBriefs in Education Key Thinkers in Education
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Stephen J. Ball
Foucault as Educator
123
Stephen J. Ball Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Institute of Education University of London London UK
ISSN 2211-1921 SpringerBriefs in Education ISSN 2211-937X SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in ISBN 978-3-319-50300-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50302-8
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Acknowledgements
There are a lot of people who have directly or indirectly made it possible for me to write this book. Foremost among them is Trinidad, without whom it would never have been finished. I am also grateful for comments and support from Ansgar Allan, Patrick Bailey, Paul Gibbs, Alex Moore, Antonio Olmedo, Roger Slee, Terry Wrigley, my research student seminar and participants at Foucault @ 90, UWS and very especially I am indebted to Carolina Junemann.
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Contents
1 The Impossibility of Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foucault and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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