Benign Violence: Education in and Beyond the Age of Reason PDF
by Ansgar Allen
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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 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, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence.
Our highest ideals have the lowest origins. Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, this book 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.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:312 pages, 26 black & white halftones
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:23/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781137272867
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:312 pages, 26 black & white halftones
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:23/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137272867