Foucault And Lifelong Learning: Governing The Subject

Description: Over the last twenty years there has been increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault in the social sciences and in particular with relation to education. This, the first book to draw on his work to consider lifelong learning, explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong learning to the wider societies of which they are a part.With a breadth of international contributors and sites of analysis, this book offers insights into such questions as: What are the effects of lifelong learning policies within socio-political systems of governance? What does lifelong learning do to our understanding of ourselves as citizens? How does lifelong learning act in the regulation and re-ordering of what people do? The book suggests that understanding of lifelong learning as contributory to the knowledge economy, globalisation or the new work order may need to be revised if we are to understand its impact more fully. It therefore makes a significant contribution to the study of lifelong learning. Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Mobilizing Foucault in studies of lifelong learning Katherine Nicoll and Andreas Fejes Section one: Governing policy subjects Actively seeking subjects Richard Edwards Understanding the mechanisms of neoliberal control: Lifelong learning flexibility and knowledge capitalism Mark Olssen Our 'will to learn' and the assemblage of a learning apparatus Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein The operation of knowledge and construction of the lifelong learning subject Ulf Olsson and Kenneth Petersson The reason of reason: Cosmopolitanism, social exclusion and lifelong learning Thomas S. Popkewitz Historicizing the lifelong learner: Governmentality and neoliberal rule Andreas Fejes Section two: Governing pedagogical subjects Self-governance in the job search -- regulative guidelines in job seeking Marinette Fogde Adult learner identities under construction Katarina Sipos Zackrisson and Liselott Assarsson Recognition of prior learning as a technique of governing Per Andersson Pathologizing and medicalizing lifelong learning: A deconstruction Gun Berglund Motivation theory as power in disguise Helena Ahl Discipline and e-learning Katherine Nicoll Academic work and adult education: A site of multiple subjects Nicky Solomon Section three: Governing subjects Encountering Foucault in lifelong learning Gert Biesta