De-Facing Power

ISBN-13: 9780521780797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 226 str.

Clarissa Rile Hayward (Ohio State University)

Opis

In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view of power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a "face," she argues for a view of power as a complex network of social boundaries--norms, identities, institutions--which define individual freedom, for "powerful" and "powerless" alike. The book's argument is supported by a comparative analysis of relationships within two ethnically-diverse educational settings--a low-income, predominantly African-American urban school; and an affluent, predominantly white, suburban school.

Recenzje

"Hayward provides an important contribution to the problem of how to study the power of norms and institutional structures." American Political Science Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. De-facing power; 3. Power and pedagogy; 4. 'The environment' and the North End community school; 5. The 'world' of Fair View; 6. Power and freedom.