This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the Ôpedagogical stateÕ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically interrogate the cultural practices of governing citizens in contemporary liberal societies. Governing through pedagogy can be identified as an emerging tactic by which both state agencies and other non-state

First Author: Pykett, Jessica
Attributed to:  Education, Citizenship Formation, Democratisation in South Africa funded by ESRC

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Governing Through Pedagogy: Re-educating Citizens (2012)

ISBN: 9780415696210