1st Edition

Governing Through Pedagogy Re-educating Citizens

Edited By Jessica Pykett Copyright 2012
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the ‘pedagogical state’ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically interrogate the cultural practices of governing citizens in contemporary liberal societies. Governing... Read more

1. Pedagogical Politics
I. Enrolling Ordinary People: Governmental Strategies and the Avoidance of Politics?Professor John Clarke, The Open University, UK

II. Bad Stories: Narrative, Citizen Identity and the State’s Materialist Pedagogy.
Professor Clarissa Rile Hayward, Washington St. Louis, USA

2. Pedagogical Spaces
Education: citizenship narratives

III. Citizenship Education and Narratives of Pedagogy.
Dr Jessica Pykett, Aberystwyth University, UK

IV. Educating the New National Citizen: Education, Political Subjectivity and Divided Societies.
Professor Lynn Staeheli, University of Durham, UK and Dr Daniel Hammett, University of Sheffield/ University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

V. University and Citizenship: University as a Space for Enacting Citizenships.
Dr Maki Kimura, University College London, UK

3. Entertainment: mediated subjectivities

VI. Youth Media Enterprise: Ethos, Administration and Pastoral Care.
Professor Denise Meredyth, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

VII. ‘A Broadcasting University’: Educated Citizenship and Civil Prudence.
Dr Michael Bailey, University of Essex

VIII. Supernanny, Parenting and a Pedagogical State.
Richenda Gambles, The Open University/Oxford University, UK

4. Empowerment: governing tactics

IX. Towards a Pedagogical State? Summoning the ‘Empowered’ Citizen.
Professor Janet Newman, The Open University, UK

X. Learning Beyond the State: The Pedagogical Spaces of the CAB Service.
Professor Rhys Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK

XI. The Third Level of U.S. Welfare Reform: Governmentality under Neoliberal Paternalism.
Professor Sanford F.Schram (Brynmawr College, Philadelphia, USA), Professor Joe Soss (University of Minnesota, USA), Dr Linda Houser (Rutgers, NJ, USA) and Richard C.Fording (University of Kentucky, USA)

Biography

Jessica Pykett is a lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University where she is researching the politics of governing through behaviour change, and the ascendance of libertarian paternalism in UK public policies.