ABSTRACT
Problematizing the "reason" of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of power and schooling, the argument is that the principles that order school subjects, the curriculum, and teaching reforms are historical practices that govern what is thought, acted on, and talked about. Highlighting the dynamics of social exclusion, the normalizing of people through curriculum, and questions of social inclusion, The "Reason" of Schooling underscores the urgency for rethinking curriculum research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|77 pages
Social Epistemology and the Reason of “Reason”
chapter I 2|19 pages
The Construction of Society and Conceptions of Education
chapter I 4|15 pages
Discourse on (Teaching) Method
chapter I 5|15 pages
The Disaster that Founds Public Education
chapter I 6|14 pages
Voluntary Servitude as a New Form of Governing
part II|70 pages
“Reason,” Science, and Making Kinds of People
chapter II 7|16 pages
Genius as a Historical Event
chapter II 8|16 pages
“Catholic” Secularism and the Jewish Gaucho School
chapter II 10|17 pages
Numbers in Telling Educational Truth
part III|80 pages
The Alchemy of School Subjects, Exclusion/Abjections