MICHEL FOUCAULT, info.

Hi everyone.

I'm wondering if anyone on this list can direct me towards foucaultian 
writings on education - either on power or ethics - that actually 
discuss, in some sort of concrete sense, the actual practices of 
education in schools?  I am aware, of course, of the passages in 
Discipline and Punish on the school, but every time I read a paper on 
Foucault written by someone in Education it seems to say very little 
about schooling and classroom practice.  The Olssen book being one case 
in point, articles by Michael Peters being another - regardless of any 
merits they might or might not have as theoretical readings of 
Foucault.  I'm working on a group research project for a Dip.Ed. 
(sucks, I know) and I'm finding that it looks like I'm going to have to 
invent the wheel on this.  Any suggestions?

David


On 01/09/2005, at 11:50 PM, Edward Comstock wrote:

> I'm currently doing my dissertation in Education on recent changes in 
> the construction of the student-object  in education research and 
> policy (increasingly casting the student in bio-reductive, 
> specifically neurological, terms).  I'm wondering if anybody out there 
> can point me to works done on "accountability" discourse from a 
> Foucauldian perspective.  
>
> I realize that accountability  discourse is usually construed as a 
> form of disciplinary power;  I'm interested in exploring  the new 
> bio-reductive techniques, and the ways they link to various 
> discourses, marking extensions and changes to disciplinary force. 
>  There seems indeed to be an increasing link between accountability 
> and this bio-reductivism.
>
> Thanks so much, Ed_______________________________________________
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