Educating the Neoliberal Whole Child by Bronwen MA Jones - 9781032063126

Educating the Neoliberal Whole ChildA Genealogical Approach\nAuthor(s): Bronwen MA Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032063126, 978-1032063126\nSynopsis\nThis book questions what educating the whole child means in the context of our current neoliberal education system. In analysing the impact of how education policy is enacted and understood, it examines how this neoliberalisation has shaped the personal and ethical relations of education.\n\nThe book is unique in raising questions about the way in which a common and universally held truth about the importance and value of educating the whole child is conceptualised and articulated in education policy. Employing Foucaults concepts of bio power, governmentality, the dispositif and subjectivities, this book explores the importance of psy-scientific knowledge, systems of education governance and classroom practices in constructing a neoliberal whole child. It .