ABSTRACT
Bill Doll's ideas find a strong and genuine resonance both in education policy and teacher education. Doll's scholarship has decisively affected the rise of popularity of curriculum studies in Finland among the students and a new generation of curriculum scholars and their intellectual interests. Doll's lifetime long scholarship as an intellectual struggle for the education worthy of its name against the modes of instrumental rationality which the founders of the Frankfurt School, The odor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, defined in the 20th century as "half-education". Ghosts of Control have taken different shapes in the intellectual history of education and they seem astonishingly resilient despite their deeply unconvincing intellectual and moral appeal and the opposition of teachers. Neoliberalism has drastically intensified the historical detrimental grip of instrumentalism—encouraging a disenchanting and alienating education policy variant of the political Orderism in the teaching profession in most countries.
