Foucault and Education Primer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820474397)

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: Shirley R. Steinberg, Gail McNicol Jardine
ISBN-10: 0820474398
ISBN-13: 9780820474397
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2005
Pages: 129
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.10w x 0.90d