Description

This book brings together two authors with a profound impact on the Sociology of Education over the past 30 years. Foucault, who focuses on how "truth" is defined and established in modern society, and Ball, who interprets the Foucauldian theoretical framework through his extensive research work on education.

This book does not only address Foucault's theory and its utility in analyzing education and related issues, nor does it focus solely on how Ball employs Foucault's conceptual framework in the analysis of educational policy. It pertains to the potential of Foucauldian methodological and analytical approaches, genealogies, in analyzing educational policy with the aim of understanding the educational process, its role, and the possibility of "showing that it was not necessary for things to evolve in this way" (Foucault, 1991, p. 76).

This is an analysis concerning education both as a technology of power and as a technology of self-care.

Contents

• Introduction
• Thanks
• Foreword
• List of tables-figures
• 1. Do we really need another book on Foucault?
• 2. Let’s rewrite the history of educational policy
• 3. A completely modern education - Blood runs through it!
• 4. How not to be governed in this way?
• Bibliography
• Index