Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today's dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault's understanding of critique is as apermanent ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time query the limits imposed
Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education
β Scribed by Mark Olssen
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 217
- Series
- Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
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