The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Are the "Politics" in the Politics of Education? Liberal, Conservative, and Critical Perspectives on the Politics of Education -- 1. The Cultural Politics of Education -- Cultural Politics: Stuart Hall's Constructivist Theory of Culture -- Cultural Politics and the "Responsible" Teacher -- Cultural Politics and Class: Pierre Bourdieu and the Forms of Capital -- Implications for Contemporary Educational Policy -- Suggested Further Reading -- Questions for Discussion -- 2. The Political Economy of Education -- Political Economy and Social Reproduction in Schooling -- Schooling under Fordism and Post-Fordism -- Limitations of Economic Perspectives: Human Agency and Resistance -- Suggested Further Reading -- Questions for Discussion -- 3. The Political Psychology of Education -- A Critical Psychology of Education -- The Specificity of Context and Student Experience -- Society and Selves Constituted by Difference -- Repression -- The Productivity of Power in the Making of the Self -- Suggested Further Reading -- Questions for Discussion -- 4. Hegemony -- Gramsci and Hegemony -- The Poverty of "Good" Suburban Schooling -- Why It Matters Now -- Suggested Further Reading -- Questions for Discussion -- 5. Disciplinary Power, Race, and Examinations -- Disciplinary Power -- Disciplining the Black Student Body -- The Possibilities of Resistance -- Theoretical Problems with Foucauldian Power -- Conclusion -- Suggested Further Reading -- Questions for Discussion -- 6. Biopolitics and Education -- What Is Biopolitics? -- A Shift in Sovereignty -- Producing Knowledge of Life -- Making Subjects -- An Egalitarian and Emancipatory Biopolitics? -- Suggested Further Reading -- Questions for Discussion