Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucaults influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusing on the implications of Foucaults theories for education, whilst characterizing them as provocative, problematizing, poetic and playful, Lynn Fendler describes the historical context for understanding Foucaults ground breaking critiques. Including a discussion of his major theories of disciplinary power, genealogy, discourse and subjectivity, this text provides generative explanations of concepts, using analogies to the Internet and to food, in order to connect Foucaults theories to everyday experience.

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Lynn Fendler is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, US, where she teaches courses in curriculum theory, philosophy of education, and humanities-oriented research. She is a founding member of the Foucault and Education Special Interest Groups of American Educational Research Association.