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Biografisk notat
Lynn Fendler is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, US, where she teaches courses in curriculum theory, philosophy of education, and humanities-oriented research. She is a founding member of the Foucault and Education Special Interest Groups of American Educational Research Association.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.
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I: Intellectual Biography
1. Foucault and His World
Part II: Critical Exposition of Foucault's Work
2. Definitions of Major Concepts
3. Summaries of Major Works
Part III: The Reception and Influence of Foucault's Work
4. The Prolific Writer and Thinker
Part IV: The Relevance of Foucault's Work Today
5. A Philosophical Legacy
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
This series provides accounts of the work of seminal thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions, exploring the contribution and significance of the thinker’s central ideas and arguments and their relevance to educational thought today. With each book written by a leading philosopher in education, these volumes are definitive companions for students of education and the philosophy of education.
The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.