Foucault as Educator

• Main Author: Ball, Stephen J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Philosophy.; Sociology of Education.; Philosophy of Education.

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 te...

Table of Contents:

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