Pupil Management and Emerging Democratic Voices by Andrew Thomas - 9781032915357

Pupil Management and Emerging Democratic VoicesGoverning by Knowledge in Schools\nAuthor(s): Andrew Thomas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032915357, 978-1032915357\nSynopsis\nThis book addresses the distance between contemporary philosophical critiques of education and the classroom context by applying new insights from social philosophy, neurology and historical analysis to common school practices.\n\nCritiquing contemporary academic and political debates concerning the use, and misuse, of assessment tools, psychometric testing and classroom management on pupils, this book looks in detail at the consequences of such practices for pupil management and the nurturing of their emerging democratic voices and sense of independence. This book explores these practices in the context of broader social phenomena such as the state of exception, management for legibility, self?regulation, governmentality and epidemiology..