This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. First, through some consideration of what his work says about education as a social and political practice. That is, education as a form of what Allen (2014) calls benign violence which operates through mundane, quotidian disciplinary technologies and expert knowledges which together construct a pedagogical machine . Second, through an exploration of his method as a form of critique. That is, as a way of showing that things are not as necessary as all that, a way of addressing what is intolerable. This suggests that critique is...
This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. First, through some consideration of what his work says about education as a social and p...