Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
Governing Practices & Producing Subjects
Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 405 g
ISBN: 978-94-6091-860-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
- Mona Gleason, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
This excellent text presents a Foucauldian analysis of selected educational practices, contemporary reform initiatives, and current educational policy, in the Canadian context. The authors demonstrate how rich theoretical constructs such as bio-power, governmentality and disciplinary power can illuminate everyday practices and policies, making “the cultural unconscious apparent” (Foucault, 1989, p. 71). Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects is essentially a hopeful book: it demonstrates the radicalizing role of theory as we try to understand and complicate educational structures and processes. This is an essential text for all those interested in Foucauldian analyses of education and a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in Canadian faculties of education.
- Anne M. Phelan, University of British Columbia