Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault''s influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusing on the implications of Foucault''s theories for education, whilst characterizing them as provocative, problematizing, poetic and playful, Lynn Fendler describes the historical context for understanding Foucault''s ground breaking critiques. Including a discussion of his major theories of disciplinary power, genealogy, discourse and subjectivity, this text provides generative explanations of concepts, using analogies to the Internet and to food, in order to connect Foucault''s theories to everyday experience.>

About the author

Lynn Fendler is Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, USA.Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Fendler, Fendler Lynn
• Assisted by: Richard Bailey (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472518811
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1881-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought; Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought; Bloomsbury Library of Educatio
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries