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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
• 2. Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Curriculum Theorizing
• 3. The Past in the Present: The Historic Reach of the Tyler Rationale
• 4. Reflections on Heteropatriarchal Violence: A Proleptic Narrative?
• 5. Re-thinking Power and Curriculum. .