Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
Published on 10. November 2017
Book
Hardback
IX, 157 pages
978-3-319-68522-9 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book Award
This book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education is currently situated, the author offers a conceptual framework for curriculum scholarship based on Foucault's genealogy of power, and analyzes how curriculum design has historically effectuated disciplinary power on students and teachers. The book engages in a synoptic essay of the history of American violence, an important curricular issue, and finally applies Foucault's concepts of truth-telling and self-care to curriculum studies as a form of self and social reconstruction in complicated conversation with each other.
This book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education is currently situated, the author offers a conceptual framework for curriculum scholarship based on Foucault's genealogy of power, and analyzes how curriculum design has historically effectuated disciplinary power on students and teachers. The book engages in a synoptic essay of the history of American violence, an important curricular issue, and finally applies Foucault's concepts of truth-telling and self-care to curriculum studies as a form of self and social reconstruction in complicated conversation with each other.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 157 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
338 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-68522-9 (9783319685229)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-68523-6
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James P. Burns
Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
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08/2018
Palgrave Macmillan
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James P. Burns
Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
E-Book
10/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
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James P. Burns is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education and Human Development at Florida International University, USA.
Content
1. Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment.- 2. Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Curriculum Theorizing.- 3. The Past in the Present: The Historic Reach of the Tyler Rationale.- 4. Reflections on Heteropatriarchal Violence: A Proleptic Narrative?.- 5. Re-thinking Power and Curriculum.