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The Learning Society from the Perspective of Governmentality

Jan Masschelein (Editor), Maarten Simons (Editor), Ulrich Bröckling (Editor), Ludwig Pongratz (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5602-8
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184 pages
March 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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This collection of essays considers a variety of educational ideas and programs from the perspective of governmentality, integrating conceptual and theoretical insights and empirical investigation of policy documents, and government technologies.

  • Considers different educational ideas of enlightenment, creativity, participation, inclusion, learning, and critique
  • Offers an overview of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s theory on governmentality and how his ideas apply to current developments in society and education
  • Investigates the intrinsic relationship between intellectual and practical educational technologies
  • A study of how educational practice and educational theory have played a constitutive role in practices of subjectivity which are crucial to ‘learning societies’

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