Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics /

• Main Author: Burns, James P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide
• Subjects: Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Education-Philosophy.; Curriculum Studies.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Educational Philosophy.
• Physical Description: IX, 157 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319685236
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68523-6

This book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education is currently situated, the author offers a conceptual framework for curriculum scholarship based on Foucault's genealogy of power, and analyzes how curriculum design has historically effectuated disciplinary power on students and teachers. The book engages in a synoptic essay of the history of American violence, an important curricular issue, and finally applies Foucault's concepts of truth-telling and self-care to curriculum studies as a form of self and social reconstruction in complicated conversation with each other.