Rethinking "Good Faith" Educational Practices Through Historical Discourses in International Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium challenges the politics of normative educational practices and research in an international context by using Foucauldian lenses like biopower, governmentality, history of the present and historical formation understood as reconceptualization of epoque. These critical approaches destabilize the systems of reasoning embedded in educational systems (e.g., educational goals, ideals, norms, visions, etc.,) and consider how historical discourses can remedy and repair future educational practices. This session provides an understanding of education as governing tools, making up people and fabricating particular educational practices. By rethinking historical discourses and visual histories in education, the symposium contributes to the conversation on equitable and just educational renewal in diverse socio-historical contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division F - History and Historiography

Chair

• Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Embodied Pedagogy: Biopower and Teacher Education - Cecilia Kyalo, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Shaping the Man through Visual Culture: Intertwining Relations between Coloniality and Governmentality under Anti-communism - Younsun Choi, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Makingup the Multicultural Identity by Visualizing Human Difference/Homogeneity: Focusing on Minjok Narrative in Educational Discourses - Ji Hyun Hwang, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Repairing the Future of France and the New Literary Citizen - Britt-Marie Zeidler, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussants

• Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Dani Friedrich, Teachers College, Columbia University