Foucault as Educator by Stephen J Ball

Foucault as Educator by Stephen J Ball

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This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. 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’.

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Foucault as Educator by Stephen J Ball

This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. 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.

Stephen J Ball is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education at the University College London, Institute of Education. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; and Society of Educational Studies, and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Phi; he has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland), and Leicester. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy.

His main areas of interest are in sociologically informed education policy analysis and the relationships between education, education policy and social class. He has written 20 books and had published over 140 journal articles. Recent books: How Schools do Policy (2012), Global Education Inc. (2012), Networks, New Governance and Education (with Carolina Junemann)(2012), and Foucault, Power and Education (2013).

 

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ISBN 13 9783319503004
ISBN 10 3319503006
Title Foucault as Educator
Author Stephen J Ball
Series Springerbriefs In Education
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Year published 2016-12-15
Number of pages 88
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