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, now in paperback, 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, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins. Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781137593924
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217252989
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Research, Experimental Psychology
Author
Ansgar Allen
Publication Name
Benign Violence: Education in and Beyond the Age of Reason
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology, Education
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
289 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
394g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ansgar Allen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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