The Educationalization of Social Problems: A Review

Abstract

Smeyers, P., & Depaepe, M. (Eds). (2008). Educational Research: The Educationalization of Social Problems. Gent, Belgium: Springer.

Notes

Notes

1 The first one is titled Why “What Works” Doesn't Work (2006) and the second one Networks and Technology (2007).

2 The word educationalization is not natural in this context, the –ize suffix suggests a negative connotation—as though a kind of distortion is occurring.

3 Italics are reproduced from the original text.

4 The term subjectivation is a philosophical concept coined by Michel Foucault to refer to the construction of one’s subjectivity. Pedagogical subjectivation thus refers to the construction of a subjectivity colonized by a pedagogical stance, for example, the way a subject comes to see his life as a lifelong learning process.

5 “By choosing those terms of contrasts,” Fendler argues that “Deleuze is apparently suggesting an alternative to Foucault’s theories of discipline” (Fendler, p. 58).

6 Such as “citizenship, multi‐culturalism, militant fundamentalism, equity and access, drug‐taking and obesity” (Smith, p. 205).

7 German concept of the age of Enlightenment, intellectual movement of the 18th century which advocated reason as the primary source of authority.