Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
Authors: Burns, James P.
- Appeals to those who seek critical engagement in policy dialogues that have been dominated by reductive audit culture discourses
- Framework and examples included in the text demonstrate that teachers and students at all levels of education retain what William F. Pinar calls the agency of subjectivity in their academic study
- Models curriculum development as interdisciplinary and contextualized in history, culture, gender, race, class, and other aspects of subjective position/experience
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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. - About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
Pages 1-23
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Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Curriculum Theorizing
Pages 25-64
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The Past in the Present: The Historic Reach of the “Tyler Rationale”
Pages 65-93
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Reflections on Heteropatriarchal Violence: A Proleptic Narrative?
Pages 95-123
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Re-thinking Power and Curriculum
Pages 125-148
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
- Book Subtitle
- Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
- Authors
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- James P. Burns
- Series Title
- Curriculum Studies Worldwide
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-68523-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-68523-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-68522-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 157
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