Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason
Allen, Ansgar
Produktnummer:
187131fe7a58a241a397c1a88e85a0cb8f
| Autor: | Allen, Ansgar |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Foucault Meritocracy Nietzsche education examination history philosophy power schooling schools |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 18.07.2014 |
| EAN: | 9781137272850 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 289 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Produktinformationen "Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason"
Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good.Setting education in its political context, this book, now in paperback, offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins.Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason is designed to disturb the reader. Education constitutes us as subjects; we owe our existence to its violent inscriptions. Those who refuse or rebel against our educational present must begin by objecting to the subjects we have become.
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