Foucault and Lifelong Learning : Governing the Subject

ISBN-13: 9780415424035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str.

Opis

Explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong learning to the wider societies of which they are a part. This book offers insights into such questions as: What are the effects of lifelong learning policies within socio-political systems of

Spis treści

1. Mobilizing Foucault in studies of lifelong learning Katherine Nicoll and Andreas Fejes Section 1: Governing policy subjects  2. Actively seeking subjects? Richard Edwards  3. Understanding the mechanisms of neoliberal control: lifelong learning flexibility and knowledge capitalism Mark Olssen  4. Our ‘will to learn’ and the assemblage of a learning apparatus Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein  5. The operation of knowledge and construction of the lifelong learning subject Ulf Olsson and Kenneth Petersson  6. The reason of reason: cosmopolitanism, social exclusion and lifelong learning Thomas S. Popkewitz  7. Historicizing the lifelong learner: governmentality and neoliberal rule Andreas Fejes  Section 2: Governing pedagogical subjects  8. Self-governance in the job search: regulative guidelines in job seeking Marinette Fogde  9. Adult learner identities under construction Katarina Sipos Zackrisson and Liselott Assarsson  10. Recognition of prior learning as a technique of governing Per Andersson  11. Pathologizing and medicalizing lifelong learning: a deconstruction Gun Berglund  12. Motivation theory as power in disguise Helene Ahl  13. Discipline and e-learning Katherine Nicoll  14. Academic work and adult education: a site of multiple subjects Nicky Solomon  Section 3: Governing subjects  15. Encountering Foucault in lifelong learning Gert Biesta