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Why Foucault? : new directions in educational research / edited by Michael A. Peters & Tina (A.C.) Besley.

Other author/creatorPeters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-
Other author/creatorBesley, Tina, 1950-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : P. Lang, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 243 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
Series Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 292
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) v. 292. ^A377111
Contents Michel Foucault : educational research as problematisation / James D. Marshall -- Freedom and discipline : transformations in pedagogic punishment / Ludwig Pongratz -- Pedagogy and self-concern in master-student relationships in antiquity / Thomas Coelen -- Foucault, truth-telling, and technologies of the self : confessional practices of the self and schools / Tina (A.C.) Besley -- Paradox of capacity and power : critical ontology and the developmental model of childhood / James Wong -- Social work as government? : a power analytical perspective / Fabian Kessl -- The "intrapreneur" and the "mother" : strategies of "fostering" and "developing" the entrepreneur of the self in organizational development and affirmative action / Susanne Maria Weber -- Thinking governmentality "from below" : social work and social movements as (collective) actors in movable/mobile orders / Susanne Maurer -- Only love for the truth can save us : truth-telling at the (world) university? / Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein -- Foucault : the ethics of self-creation and the future of education / Kenneth Wain -- Educational research : "games of truth" and the ethics of subjectivity / Michael A. Peters -- Critically framing education policy : Foucault, discourse, and governmentality / Robert Doherty -- Invoking democracy : Foucault's conception (with insights from Hobbes) / Mark Olssen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006023767
ISBN0820478903 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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