Foucault as Educator

by Stephen Ball

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 technologies and expert knowledges which together construct a 'pedagogical machine'. Second, through an exploration of his 'method' as a form of critique...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319503006
• ISBN13: 9783319503004
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"