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The “Reason” of Schooling Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education

Edited By Thomas Popkewitz Copyright 2015
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge
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    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.

    Contents

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    1. Curriculum Studies, The Reason of "Reason" and Schooling. Thomas S. Popkewitz

      2. SECTION ONE: SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE REASON OF "REASON"

    2. The Construction of Society and Conceptions of Education: Comparative Visions in Germany, France, and the United States around 1900. Daniel Tröhler

    3. Cold War, Hot Peace, and Systems of Reasoning about Youth. Nancy Lesko

    4. Discourse On (Teaching) Method: Challenging the Reason of Contemporary Teacher Education. Daniel Friedrich

    5. The Disaster that Founds Public Education: Social Inequity, Race, and Rebuilding the New Orleans School System after Hurricane Katrina. Amy Sloane

    6. Voluntary Servitude as a New Form of Governing: Reinstating Kneeling-bowing Rites in Modern China. Weili Zhao

      7. SECTION TWO: "REASON", SCIENCE AND MAKING KINDS OF PEOPLE

    7. Genius as an Historical Event: Its Making as a Statistical Object and Instrument for Governing Schooling. Catarina Silva Martins

    8. "Catholic" Secularism and the Jewish Gaucho School: Salvation Themes of The 19th Century Argentinean Citizen. Ezequiel Gomez Caride

    9. Chasing The Chimera’s Tails: An Analysis of Interest in Science. Lars Bang and Paola Valero

    10. Numbers in Telling Educational Truth: Fabrications of Kinds of People and Social Exclusion . Thomas S. Popkewitz.

      11. SECTION THREE: THE ALCHEMY OF SCHOOL SUBJECTS, EXCLUSION/ ABJECTIONS

    11. Transgression as Democratic Convivenza: Italian School Policy and the Discourse of Integration. Jamie A. Kowalczyk

    12. Back to the Basics: Inventing the Mathematical Self. Jennie Diaz

    13. The Social Question Revisited: The Configuration of the Social Dimension in the European Education Space. Kenneth Petersson, Ulf Olsson, John B. Krejsler

    14. Fictions of the Transcendent and the Making of Value in Music Education in the United States. Ruth I. Gustafson

    15. The Problem: Historicizing the Guatemalan Projection and Protection of the "Indian." Ligia (Licho) López

    Biography

    Thomas S. Popkewitz is professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

    "Three questions provide a focus for the volume:  What principles of “reason” historically order schooling, its subjects, and reforms?  What historical conditions make those subjects possible?  How can those conditions, and especially the problems of exclusion, be rethought?...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and practitioners."- R. R. Sherman, emeritus, University of Florida, in CHOICE, April 2015
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