Michel Foucault Personal Autonomy And Education

Author : J.D. Marshall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586624
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault: Personal Autonomy and Education written by J.D. Marshall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to serve two purposes. First it provides an introduction to the ideas and works of Michel Foucault. It should be particularly appropriate for education students for whom, in general, Foucault is a shadowy presence. Second, it provides a Foucault based critique of a central plank of Western liberal education, the notion of the autonomous individual or personal autonomy. There are several introductions to Foucault but they tend to be written from a particular theoretical position, or with a particular interest in Foucault's ideas and works. For example Smart (1986) and Poster (1984) exemplify the former, and Dreyfus and Rabinow (1983) the latter. There is no substantial work in education on Foucault, apart from Ball (1990), which is an edited collection of papers by educationalists. The writer started reading Foucault from a position in education which was in the liberal framework, somewhere between Dewey, Freire and Habermas, but with an interest in punishment, authority and power. The book is the outcome of several years of trying to introduce students in education to his ideas and works in an educationally relevant manner. But an introduction, on its own, cannot show this relevance to education. Unless his ideas are put to work, unless they are used as opposed to mentioned in some sphere or area of education, then they may be of little relevance.

Author : Lynn Fendler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441126651
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Lynn Fendler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault's influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusing on the implications of Foucault's theories for education, whilst characterizing them as provocative, problematizing, poetic and playful, Lynn Fendler describes the historical context for understanding Foucault's ground breaking critiques. Including a discussion of his major theories of disciplinary power, genealogy, discourse and subjectivity, this text provides generative explanations of concepts, using analogies to the Internet and to food, in order to connect Foucault's theories to everyday experience.

Author : R.F. Dearden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135171092
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and the Development of Reason (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 8) written by R.F. Dearden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically and constructively discusses philosophical questions which have particular bearing on the formulation of educational aims. The book is divided into three major parts: the first deals with the nature of education, and discusses the various general aims, such as 'mental health', 'socialization' and 'creativity' which have been thought to characterize it; the second section is concerned with the nature of reason and its relationship to feeling, will and action; finally the development of different aspects of reason in an educational context is considered.

Author : Mark Olssen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317256085
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Mark Olssen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Olssen ! brings Foucault to life and sheds new light on understanding his work...Educationalists and scholars across the disciplines will welcome this interpretation of Foucault." Michael A. Peters, University of Glasgow "Olssen distills in brilliant and succinct language the core of Foucault's most important insights. This is a book that every student should read in order to understand how to link theory to practice, and educational thought to legacy and work of one of Europe's great thinkers." Henry Giroux, McMaster University Michel Foucault is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, and his works are some of the most difficult to grasp. Mark Olssen offers an accessible overview of Foucault's thought, putting into context the relevance of Foucault's ideas. Olssen adds important new insights to Foucault scholarship by bringing to light the influences of other thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche, Gramsci, Habermas, and others on Foucault's development as a thinker, and their influence on the deep historical materialist strand that grounds and uniquely characterizes so much of Foucault's thought.

Author : Tina Besley
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481951
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity & Truth written by Tina Besley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Foucault's later work and his (re)turn to 'the hermeneutics of the subject', exploring the implications of his thinking for education, pedagogy, and related disciplines. What and who is the subject of education and what are the forms of self-constitution? Chapters investigate Foucault's notion of 'the culture of self' in relation to questions concerning truth (parrhesia or free speech) and subjectivity, especially with reference to the literary genres of confession and biography, and the contemporary political forms of individualization (governmentality).

Author : John Kleinig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315531437
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Issues in Education written by John Kleinig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of education is an important component of most education courses. The subject is often split into two traditions, one emphasising the use of analytic philosophy, the other engaging in radical social criticism. This book, first published in 1982, brings together the strengths of both traditions and takes stock of the debate. This study provides an interesting introduction to all the major philosophical issues in education which is different to many other works on the subject.

Author : Alan D. Reid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400768095
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Research in Education written by Alan D. Reid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued. An international team of scholars examines cross-cutting themes of how research in education is conceptualised, characterised, contextualised, legitimated and represented. Contributions include specially commissioned essays, critical commentaries, vignettes, dialogues and cases. Each section discusses the significance of a complex terrain of ideas and critiques that can inform thinking and practice in educational research. The result is a thorough and accessible volume that offers fresh insights into the perspectives and challenges that shape diverse genres of research in education. ​

Author : Gail McNicol Jardine
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820474397
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault & Education written by Gail McNicol Jardine and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the works of Michel Foucault and their relevance for educational theory and practice. Gail McNicol Jardine investigates Foucault's early examinations of the transformation of systems of knowledge as societies change, his in-depth, critical analyses of Knowledge-Power, and his increasingly more explicit examination of the relationship of the Self to acts of Knowledge-Power. Specific themes that are explored from Foucault's work are archeology, genealogy, disciplinary knowledge and power, normality, the gaze, panopticism, the examination, critique and resistance. This primer contains ample references that allow the reader to examine Foucault's own use of these important analytic concepts and tools. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in education, critical theory, educational theory, critical pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Author : Mark Olssen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446445X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Normative Foucauldian written by Mark Olssen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Olssen is one of the leading social scientists writing in the world today. Inspired by the writings of Michel Foucault, Olssen’s writing traverses philosophy, politics, education, and epistemology. This book comprises a selection of his papers published in academic journals and books over thirty-five years.

Author : J.D. Marshall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402026021
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralism, Philosophy, Pedagogy written by J.D. Marshall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been quite long in the making. In its original format, but with some different chapters, and with the then publisher, it foundered (as did other volumes in the planned series). At the in press stage, when we obviously thought it was going ahead, it was suddenly canned. Quite distraught I closed it away in a desk drawer for a year or so. But then Joy Carp of Kluwer Academic Publishers expressed an interest in it, and we were in business again. Most of the contributors to the original volume have stayed with it, only to be delayed by myself, for a variety of reasons (but see the dedication). I had been writing on Michel Foucault for a number of years but had become concerned about mis-appropriations of his ideas and works in educational literature. I was also concerned about the increasingly intemperate babble in that literature of the notion of postmodernism. Indeed at one major educational conference in North America I listened to a person expounding postmodernism in terms of ‘Destroy, Destroy, Destroy’. Like Michel Foucault I am not quite sure what postmodernism is, but following Mark Poster’s account of poststructuralism - as merely a collective term to catch a number of French thinkers – I thought that what we had to do in education was to look at what particular thinkers had said, and not become involved in vapid discussion at an abstract level on ‘-isms’. Thus the book was conceived.