Foucault and a politics of confession in education /

"In liberal, democratic and capitalist societies today, we are increasingly invited to disclose our innermost thoughts to others. We are asked to turn our gaze inwards, scrutinizing ourselves, our behaviours and beliefs, while talking and writing about ourselves in these terms. This form of dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Fejes, Andreas, 1977-, Nicoll, Kathy, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I Introduction; 1 An emergence of confession in education; PART II A politics of confession in assessment; 2 Confession and subjectification in school performance evaluations; 3 Fabricating the teacher's soul in teacher education; 4 Assessing confession in shaping the professional; 5 Confessions of an individual education plan; 6 Visualization, performance and the figure of the researcher; PART III A politics of confession in dialogue; 7 On confessional dialogue and collective subjects
  • 8 Guiding adults: researching the ANT-ics of confessing; 9 Confessional talk on parenting; PART IV A politics of confession in State programmes; 10 Is 'giving voice' an incitement to confess?; 11 Are we constructing Lutherans, people with values or US citizens?; 12 Subjectivity, youth unemployment and the culture of self; 13 Historicizing Chinese self-reflection as a technology of confession; PART V A politics of confession as care of the self; 14 Reflections on lifelong learning and the making of the self in confession; 15 Living the present otherwise; Index