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Item Details
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BENIGN VIOLENCE: EDUCATION IN AND BEYOND THE AGE OF REASON
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| By: |
Ansgar Allen |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£54.17 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137272864 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137272867 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
23 July, 2014 |
| Description: |
Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. |
| Synopsis: |
Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good. Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins. Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, this book is designed to disturb the reader. Education constitutes us as subjects; we owe our existence to its violent inscriptions. Those who refuse or rebel against our educational present must begin by objecting to the subjects we have become. |
| Illustrations: |
26 black & white halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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