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Hunter, Ian

 
9781863736244: Rethinking the School: Subjectivity, Bureaucracy, Criticism

Synopsis

Educationalists have long worked to democratise our school system and purge traces of its religious origins. Rethinking the School shows that these efforts have been in vain. The bureaucratic organisation of schooling is here to stay, and Christian moral discipline is an integral part of the school as we know it. Hunter argues that both liberal and Marxian theory ignore the historical reality of the school. He does not see the school as the failed attempt to realise principles of social equality, complete personal development and intellectual enlightenment. Rather, he sees the modern school as an improvised apparatus for the training of good citizens and the guidance of souls. Rethinking the School is one of the first major applications of Foucault's genealogical method to the school system, and will be widely debated by educationalists, policy-makers and those interested in the interaction of government and subjectivity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Hunter is a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Culture and Government, and co-author of Accounting for the Humanities and On Pornography.

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