The sociology of education as the history of the present: fabrication, difference and abjection

Authors

  • Thomas Popkewitz Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24933/horizontes.v37i0.817

Abstract

The paper explores the fabrications of human kinds in pedagogical research. It examines the social and psychological sciences of education as producing independent spaces for the study of people in order to act on them and as a cultural thesis for people to act for themselves. Further, it explores the principles generated about who the child is and should be. It is argued that the making of human kinds embodies particular historically generated modes of representing the possibilities of life; and these modes function to divide, differentiate and abject particular qualities of people and populations into unlivable spaces. This comparativeness produces inequality as it strives for equality. The analysis engages educational studies in a conversation with history, philosophy, political and cultural studies that draw on particular European studies brought into the US to challenge its philosophical, analytical and social/psychological traditions.

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Published

2019-06-17

How to Cite

Popkewitz, T. (2019). The sociology of education as the history of the present: fabrication, difference and abjection. Horizontes, 37, e019018. https://doi.org/10.24933/horizontes.v37i0.817

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Seção Temática: Leituras e leitores de Foucault: diálogos com a Educação