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Description:Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their "true" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant learner. "The Confessing Society "takes a critical stance towards the modern relentless will to disclose the self and argues that society has become a confessing society. Drawing on Foucault's later work on confession and governmentality, this book" "carefully analyses how confession operates within practices of lifelong learning as a way to shape activated and responsible citizens and provides examples of how it might be possible to traverse the confessional truth of the present time. Chapters include:Reflection and Reflective PracticesDeliberation and Therapeutic InterventionLifelong GuidanceMedialised ParentingThis controversial book is international in its scope and pursues current debates regarding trans-national policy and to research discussions on education, lifelong learning and governance, and it will provoke lively debate amongst educational practitioners, academics, postgraduate and research students in education and lifelong learning in Europe, North America and Australasia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Confessing Society: Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning. To get started finding The Confessing Society: Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 136

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Routledge

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1136734317

Description: Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their "true" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant learner. "The Confessing Society "takes a critical stance towards the modern relentless will to disclose the self and argues that society has become a confessing society. Drawing on Foucault's later work on confession and governmentality, this book" "carefully analyses how confession operates within practices of lifelong learning as a way to shape activated and responsible citizens and provides examples of how it might be possible to traverse the confessional truth of the present time. Chapters include:Reflection and Reflective PracticesDeliberation and Therapeutic InterventionLifelong GuidanceMedialised ParentingThis controversial book is international in its scope and pursues current debates regarding trans-national policy and to research discussions on education, lifelong learning and governance, and it will provoke lively debate amongst educational practitioners, academics, postgraduate and research students in education and lifelong learning in Europe, North America and Australasia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Confessing Society: Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning. To get started finding The Confessing Society: Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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