When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in Room 207 plan to "really act up". "This is an artful spoof that's not to be missed".--Booklist.
When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in Room 207 plan to "really act up". "This is an artful spoof that's not to be missed".--Bookli...
This book is designed to serve two purposes. First it provides an introduction to the ideas and works of Michel Foucault. It should be particularly appropriate for education students for whom, in general, Foucault is a shadowy presence. Second, it provides a Foucault based critique of a central plank of Western liberal education, the notion of the autonomous individual or personal autonomy. There are several introductions to Foucault but they tend to be written from a particular theoretical position, or with a particular interest in Foucault's ideas and works. For example Smart (1986) and...
This book is designed to serve two purposes. First it provides an introduction to the ideas and works of Michel Foucault. It should be particularly ap...
This book has been quite long in the making. In its original format, but with some different chapters, and with the then publisher, it foundered (as did other volumes in the planned series). At the in press stage, when we obviously thought it was going ahead, it was suddenly canned. Quite distraught I closed it away in a desk drawer for a year or so. But then Joy Carp of Kluwer Academic Publishers expressed an interest in it, and we were in business again. Most of the contributors to the original volume have stayed with it, only to be delayed by myself, for a variety of reasons (but see the...
This book has been quite long in the making. In its original format, but with some different chapters, and with the then publisher, it foundered (as d...