The Impossibility of Education

Authors: Stephen J Ball

Publish Date: 2017

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 1-33

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Abstract

This chapter explores education as one nexus of Foucault’s three vectors of analysis or ‘aspects of experience’—truth power and subjectivity It further considers how the changing emphases between these vectors in Foucault’s oeuvre can enable us to think about education differently I put these vectors to work in relation to a exploratory and very provisional genealogy of pedagogy and the school Finally the chapter discusses what such analyses mean in terms of education as a philosophical practice and suggests as far as the early and mid period work of Foucault is concerned in relation to his strident antihumanism that education is impossible

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