1st Edition
Foucault and a Politics of Confession in Education
Author bios Acknowledgements Part 1 – Introduction 1. An emergence of confession in education Andreas Fejes and Katherine Nicoll Part 2 – A politics of confession in assessment 2. Confession and subjectifications in school performance evaluations Georg Breidenstein and Christiane Thompson 3. Fabricating the teacher’s soul in teacher education Thomas S. Popkewitz and Christopher Kirchgasler 4. Assessing confession in shaping the professional Katherine Nicoll 5. Confessions of an individual education plan Lena Sjöberg 6. Visualization, performance, and the figure of the researcher
Naomi Hodgson Part 3 – A politics of confession in dialogue 7. On confessional dialogue and collective subjects Ulf Olsson, Kenneth Petersson and John B. Krejsler 8. Guiding adults: researching the ANT-ics of confessing Robin Usher and Richard Edwards 9. Confessional talk in parenting Liselott Aarsand Part 4 – A politics of confession in State programmes 10. Is giving voice an incitement to confess? Anna Anderson 11. Are we constructing Lutherans, people with values or US citizens? Jonas Qvarsebo and Thom Axelsson 12. Subjectivity, youth unemployment and culture of self Tina A.C. Besley and Michael A. Peters 13. Historicizing Chinese self-reflection as a technology of confession Weili Zhao Part 5 – A politics of confession as Care of the self 14. Reflections on lifelong learning and the making of the self in Kenneth Wain 15. Living the present otherwise Andreas Fejes and Magnus Dahlstedt
Biography
Andreas Fejes is Professor in Adult Education Research at the division for education and adult learning at Linköping University, Sweden.
Katherine Nicoll is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
