Critiquing the Educational Present: The (limited) usefulness to educational research of the Foucauldian approach to governmentality

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-360

  Goddard, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critique; Democracy; Desubjectification; Governmentality; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951713368     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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