| 期刊全称 | Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason | | 影响因子2023 | Ansgar Allen | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Shortlisted for the BSA prize in 2015.Explores how education can be seen as a violent act.Seels to unsettle a settled conscience through asking questions which invert the norms we understand | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .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, now in paperback, 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, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins..Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason 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.. | | Pindex | Book 2014 |
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