The Reason of Schooling : Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education

TLDR: The authors discusses Curriculum studies, the reason of "reason" and schooling, and the history of the New Orleans school system after Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the role of voluntary servitude as a new form of governing.

Abstract: Contents Preface Acknowledgments * Curriculum Studies, The Reason of "Reason" and Schooling. Thomas S. Popkewitz SECTION ONE: SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE REASON OF "REASON" * The Construction of Society and Conceptions of Education: Comparative Visions in Germany, France, and the United States around 1900. Daniel Trohler *Cold War, Hot Peace, and Systems of Reasoning about Youth. Nancy Lesko * Discourse On (Teaching) Method: Challenging the Reason of Contemporary Teacher Education. Daniel Friedrich * The Disaster that Founds Public Education: Social Inequity, Race, and Rebuilding the New Orleans School System after Hurricane Katrina. Amy Sloane * Voluntary Servitude as a New Form of Governing: Reinstating Kneeling-bowing Rites in Modern China. Weili Zhao SECTION TWO: "REASON", SCIENCE AND MAKING KINDS OF PEOPLE * Genius as an Historical Event: Its Making as a Statistical Object and Instrument for Governing Schooling. Catarina Silva Martins *"Catholic" Secularism and the Jewish Gaucho School: Salvation Themes of The 19th Century Argentinean Citizen. Ezequiel Gomez Caride * Chasing The Chimera's Tails: An Analysis of Interest in Science. Lars Bang and Paola Valero * Numbers in Telling Educational Truth: Fabrications of Kinds of People and Social Exclusion . Thomas S. Popkewitz. SECTION THREE: THE ALCHEMY OF SCHOOL SUBJECTS, EXCLUSION/ ABJECTIONS * Transgression as Democratic Convivenza: Italian School Policy and the Discourse of Integration. Jamie A. Kowalczyk * Back to the Basics: Inventing the Mathematical Self. Jennie Diaz * The Social Question Revisited: The Configuration of the Social Dimension in the European Education Space. Kenneth Petersson, Ulf Olsson, John B. Krejsler * Fictions of the Transcendent and the Making of Value in Music Education in the United States. Ruth I. Gustafson * The Problem: Historicizing the Guatemalan Projection and Protection of the "Indian." Ligia (Licho) Lopez