Foucault and Education - Putting Theory to Work

Specially selected by Stephen Ball, this is a collection of the best and most interesting recently published papers that -use- Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational -problems-. Arguably the best known social theorist in the western world, Foucault-s work is now widely used by researchers and writers in many fields of social science. These papers not only demonstrate the practical applicability of Foucault to things -cracked- and things -intolerable- in making them -not as necessary as all that-; they are also transposable, in that they offer forms and methods of analysis which can be taken up and applied and used in other settings, sectors, and policy fields.