1st Edition
Pupil Management and Emerging Democratic Voices Governing by Knowledge in Schools
By Andrew Thomas
Copyright 2026
194 Pages
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Routledge
This book addresses the distance between contemporary philosophical critiques of education and the classroom context by applying new insights from social philosophy, neurology and historical analysis to common school practices.
Critiquing contemporary academic and political debates concerning the use, and misuse, of assessment tools, psychometric testing and classroom management on pupils, this... Read more
1. On governing autonomy – education for self-regulation and management Part 1 Pupil management 2. On leprosy and plague – what are the mechanisms of inclusion? 3. On states of emergency – the rights given and taken away in exceptional education 4. On Civilization – how legible classrooms structure the gaze of teachers and pupils Part 2 Emerging democratic voices 5. On hemispheres – diagnostic conversations and attentiveness 6. On plastic brains – pupil flexibility and explosivity 7. On populations and parliaments – education for peaceful lives and world transformation
Biography
Andrew Thomas is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, Østfold University College, Norway.
