Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body - Couverture souple

Porter, Roy; Jones, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415183413 ISBN 13 : 9780415183413

Editeur : Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This book, along with its companion volume Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms, was originally conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England. It focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment, especially state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment in the USA, the UK and in Australia, at both primary and secondary levels. Chapters offer new perspectives on the theories that underlie the development and interpretation of reading assessments, national assessments and classroom-based assessment, challenging readers to think in different ways.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.
Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body.
The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. This vital guide critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers across the range of social sciences.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415183413
• ISBN 13: 9780415183413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236