The demand for higher education worldwide is booming. Governments want well-educated citizens and knowledge workers but are scrambling for funds. The capacity of the public sector to provide increased and equitable access to higher education is seriously challenged.
Author(s): Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Mark Olssen, Susanne Maurer, Susanne Weber
Series: Contexts of Education
Publisher: Sense Publishers / Brill
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 555
Governmentality Studies in Education
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Pedagogy, Psychagogy, Demagogy
Introduction
I. Foucault on Governmentality
1. Governing Liberal Societies: The Foucault Effect in the English-Speaking World
2. Michel Foucault’s Understanding of Liberal Politics
3. An Indigestible Meal? Foucault, Governmentality and State Theory
4. Open-Context Expertise
5. Governmentality and Subjectivity: Practices of Self as Arts of Self-Government
6. Neoliberal Governmentality: Foucault on the Birth of Biopolitics
7. Reflections on Governmentality
II. Foucault, Education and Governmentality: Anglo-American Perspectives
8. Foucault as Educator
9. Michel Foucault on Power: From the Disciplinary Society to Security
10. Social Capital: Governing the Social Nexus
11. Governmentality of Youth: Beyond Cultural Studies
12. Lifelong Learning, Subjectivity and the Totally Pedagogised Society
13. Why the Desire for University-School Collaboration and the Promise of Pedagogical Content Knowledge may not Matter as much as we Think
14. Casting Teachers into Education Reforms and Regimes of Inspection: Resistance to Normalization through Self-Governance
15. Producing Entrepreneurial Subjects: Neoliberal Rationalities and Portfolio Assessment
16. Neoliberalism, Knowledge Capitalism and the Steered University: The Role of OECD and Canadian Federal Government Discourse
17. Governing the Invisible: Psychical Science and Conditions of Proof
18. Analysing Secondary School Strategies in Changing Times: The Insights and Gaps of a Governmentality Lens
19. The Special Branch: Governing Mentalities Through Alternative-Site Placement
20. Growing Dendrites: Brain-Based Learning, Governmentality and Ways of Being a Person
21. Governing Autism: Neoliberalism, Risk, and Technologies of the Self
III. Foucault, Education and Governmentality: European Perspectives
22. The Art of Being Governed Less: Educational Science in Germany and Governmentality
23. What’s the Use of Studies on Governmentality in Social Work? A Critique on the Critique
24. Learning to Become an Entrepreneurial Self for Voluntary Work? Social Policy and Older People in the Volunteer Sector
25. Free play of Forces and Procedural Creation of Order: The Dispositive of Democracy in Organizational Change
26. Economizing and Pedagogizing Continuing Education
27. From Pastoral to Strategic Relations in Adult Education? Governmentality Theory-Based Thoughts on a Changing Relationship
28. Modularized Knowledge
29. How to Govern the Professor? Reflections on the Alma Mater Bolognese
30. Fabricating the European Citizen
31. “The Art of not being governed like that and at that Cost”: Comments on Self-Study in Studies of Governmentality
Contributors
