ABSTRACT
First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and challenging, the essays assess the relevance of Foucault's work to educational practice, and show how the application of Foucauldian analysis to education enables us to see the politics of educational reform in a new light.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |45 pages
Foucault and education
part |75 pages
History, power and knowledge
chapter |27 pages
Educational practices and scientific knowledge
A genealogical reinterpretation of the emergence of physiology in post-Revolutionary France
part |76 pages
Discourse and politics