Table Of ContentTHE “REASON” OF SCHOOLING
Problematizing the “reason” of schooling as historical and political, in this book
leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense
of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Exam-
ining the limits of contemporary notions of power and schooling, the argument
is that the principles that order school subjects, the curriculum, and teaching
reforms are historical practices that govern what is thought, acted on, and talked
about. Highlighting the dynamics of social exclusion, the normalizing of people
through curriculum, and questions of social inclusion, The “Reason” of Schooling
underscores the urgency for rethinking curriculum research.
Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
STUDIES IN CURRICULUM THEORY
William F. Pinar, Series Editor
Henderson (Ed.) Reconceptualizing Curriculum
Development: Inspiring and Informing
Action
Popkewitz (Ed.) The “Reason” of Schooling:
Historicizing Curriculum Studies,
Pedagogy, and Teacher Education
Magrini Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism
in Education: Critical Essays in
Ontology, Phenomenology, and
Philosophical Hermeneutics
Wang Nonviolence and Education: Cross-
Cultural Pathways
Hurren/Hasebe-Ludt (Eds.) Contemplating Curriculum:
Genealogies/Times/Places
Pinar (Ed.) International Handbook of Curriculum
Research, Second Edition
Latta Curricular Conversations: Play is
the (Missing) Thing
Doll Pragmatism, Post-Modernism, and
Complexity Theory: The “Fascinating
Imaginative Realm” of William E. Doll,
Jr. Edited by Donna Trueit
Carlson The Education of Eros: A History
of Education and the Problem of
Adolescent Sexuality Since 1950
Taubman Disavowed Knowledge: Psychoanalysis,
Education, and Teaching
Pinar What Is Curriculum Theory? Second
Edition
Tröhler Languages of Education: Protestant
Legacies, National Identities, and
Global Aspirations
Hendry Engendering Curriculum History
Handa What Does Understanding Mathematics
Mean for Teachers? Relationship as a
Metaphor for Knowing
Joseph (Ed.) Cultures of Curriculum, Second
Edition
Sandlin/Schultz/Burdick (Eds.) Handbook of Public Pedagogy:
Education and Learning Beyond
Schooling
Malewski (Ed.) Curriculum Studies Handbook—The
Next Moment
Pinar The Wordliness of a Cosmopolitan
Education: Passionate Lives in Public
Service
Taubman Teaching By Numbers: Deconstructing
the Discourse of Standards and
Accountability in Education
Appelbaum Children’s Books for Grown-Up
Teachers: Reading and Writing
Curriculum Theory
Eppert/Wang (Eds.) Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum:
Eastern Thought, Educational Insights
Jardine/Friesen/Clifford Curriculum in Abundance
Autio Subjectivity, Curriculum, and Society:
Between and Beyond German Didaktik
and Anglo-American Curriculum
Studies
Brantlinger (Ed.) Who Benefits from Special Education?:
Remediating (Fixing) Other People’s
Children
Pinar/Irwin (Eds.) Curriculum in a New Key: The
Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki
Reynolds/Webber (Eds.) Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/
Positions and Lines of Flight
McKnight Schooling, The Puritan Imperative, and
the Molding of an American National
Identity: Education’s “Errand Into the
Wilderness”
Pinar (Ed.) International Handbook of Curriculum
Research
Morris Curriculum and the Holocaust:
Competing Sites of Memory and
Representation
Doll Like Letters In Running Water: A
Mythopoetics of Curriculum
Westbury/Hopmann/Riquarts (Eds.) Teaching as a Reflective Practice: The
German Didaktic Tradition
Reid Curriculum as Institution and Practice:
Essays in the Deliberative Tradition
Pinar (Ed.) Queer Theory in Education
Huebner The Lure of the Transcendent:
Collected Essays by Dwayne E.
Huebner. Edited by Vikki Hillis.
Collected and Introduced by William F.
Pinar
For additional information on titles in the Studies in Curriculum Theory series visit
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THE “REASON” OF
SCHOOLING
Historicizing Curriculum Studies,
Pedagogy, and Teacher Education
Edited by
Thomas S. Popkewitz
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The “Reason” of schooling : historicizing curriculum studies, pedagogy,
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1. Curriculum planning—Philosophy. 2. Education—Philosophy.
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 Curriculum Studies, the Reason of “Reason,” and Schooling 1
Thomas S. Popkewitz
PART I
Social Epistemology and the Reason of “Reason” 19
2 The Construction of Society and Conceptions of Education:
Comparative Visions in Germany, France, and
the United States Around 1900 21
Daniel Tröhler
3 Cold War, Hot Peace, and Systems of Reasoning
About Youth 40
Nancy Lesko
4 Discourse on (Teaching) Method: Challenging the Reason
of Contemporary Teacher Education 52
Daniel Friedrich
5 The Disaster That Founds Public Education: Social Inequity,
Race, and Rebuilding the New Orleans School System
After Hurricane Katrina 67
Amy Sloane
viii Contents
6 Voluntary Servitude as a New Form of Governing:
Reinstating Kneeling-Bowing Rites in
Modern Chinese Education 82
Weili Zhao
PART II
“Reason,” Science, and Making Kinds of People 97
7 Genius as a Historical Event: Its Making as a Statistical
Object and Instrument for Governing Schooling 99
Catarina Silva Martins
8 “Catholic” Secularism and the Jewish Gaucho School:
Salvation Themes of the 19th-Century Argentinean
Citizen 115
Ezequiel Gomez Caride
9 Chasing the Chimera’s Tails: An Analysis of Interest
in Science 131
Lars Bang and Paola Valero
10 Numbers in Telling Educational Truth: Fabrications
of Kinds of People and Social Exclusion 150
Thomas S. Popkewitz
PART III
The Alchemy of School Subjects, Exclusion/Abjections 167
11 Transgression as Democratic C onvivenza : Italian School
Policy and the Discourse of Integration 169
Jamie A. Kowalczyk
12 Back to the Basics: Inventing the Mathematical Self 184
Jennie Diaz
13 The Social Question Revisited: The Configuration of
the Social Dimension in the European Education Space 200
Kenneth Petersson, Ulf Olsson, and John B. Krejsler
14 Fictions of the Transcendent and the Making of Value
in Music Education in the United States 215
Ruth I. Gustafson
Contents ix
15 The Problem: Historicizing the Guatemalan Projection
and Protection of the “Indian” 229
Ligia (Licho) López López
Contributors 247
Index 251
