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Benign Violence: Education in and Beyond the Age of Reason

Benign Violence: Education in and Beyond the Age of Reason

Hardcover

General Education

ISBN10: 1137272856
ISBN13: 9781137272850
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 18 2014
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good.

Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins.

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