1st Edition
Governing Through Pedagogy Re-educating Citizens
This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the ‘pedagogical state’ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically interrogate the cultural practices of governing citizens in contemporary liberal societies. Governing through pedagogy can be identified as an emerging tactic by which both state agencies and other non-state actors manage, administer, discipline, shape, care for and enable liberal citizens. Hence, discourses of ‘active citizenship’, ‘participatory democracy’, ‘community empowerment’, ‘personalised responsibility’, ‘behaviour change’ and ‘community cohesion’ are productively viewed through the conceptual lens of the pedagogical state. Chapters consider the spaces of schools, universities, the voluntary sector, civil society organisations, parenting initiatives, the media, government departments and state agencies as fruitful empirical sites through which pedagogy is worked and re-worked.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
1. Pedagogical Politics
I. Enrolling Ordinary People: Governmental Strategies and the Avoidance of Politics?Professor John Clarke, The Open University, UK
II. Bad Stories: Narrative, Citizen Identity and the State’s Materialist Pedagogy.
Professor Clarissa Rile Hayward, Washington St. Louis, USA
2. Pedagogical Spaces
Education: citizenship narratives
III. Citizenship Education and Narratives of Pedagogy.
Dr Jessica Pykett, Aberystwyth University, UK
IV. Educating the New National Citizen: Education, Political Subjectivity and Divided Societies.
Professor Lynn Staeheli, University of Durham, UK and Dr Daniel Hammett, University of Sheffield/ University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
V. University and Citizenship: University as a Space for Enacting Citizenships.
Dr Maki Kimura, University College London, UK
3. Entertainment: mediated subjectivities
VI. Youth Media Enterprise: Ethos, Administration and Pastoral Care.
Professor Denise Meredyth, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
VII. ‘A Broadcasting University’: Educated Citizenship and Civil Prudence.
Dr Michael Bailey, University of Essex
VIII. Supernanny, Parenting and a Pedagogical State.
Richenda Gambles, The Open University/Oxford University, UK
4. Empowerment: governing tactics
IX. Towards a Pedagogical State? Summoning the ‘Empowered’ Citizen.
Professor Janet Newman, The Open University, UK
X. Learning Beyond the State: The Pedagogical Spaces of the CAB Service.
Professor Rhys Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK
XI. The Third Level of U.S. Welfare Reform: Governmentality under Neoliberal Paternalism.
Professor Sanford F.Schram (Brynmawr College, Philadelphia, USA), Professor Joe Soss (University of Minnesota, USA), Dr Linda Houser (Rutgers, NJ, USA) and Richard C.Fording (University of Kentucky, USA)
Biography
Jessica Pykett is a lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University where she is researching the politics of governing through behaviour change, and the ascendance of libertarian paternalism in UK public policies.
