- Title
- Utopia/dystopia: where do we go with 'discipline'?
- Creator
- Imre, Rob; Millei, Zsuzsa; Griffiths, Tom G.
- Relation
- Re-theorizing Discipline in Education: Problems, Politics & Possibilities p. 160-174
- Relation
- Complicated Conversation: A Book Series of Curriculum Studies
- Relation
- http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54288&concordeid=310966
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This chapter raises possible ways in which we imagine the future of discipline as a concept. This means that we are critically assessing how the concept of 'discipline' serves to represent a (possible) positive ideal, a model of perfection or its impossibility. As such we seek to examine the concept of discipline from utopian/ dystopian, and world-systems inspired utopian perspectives. Here, we will use the idea of utopia, and its converse, dystopia, as a centralizing theme in order to take apart the notion of discipline in its modern institutional setting. This chapter seeks to provoke thinking about discipline in a meta-theoretical fashion so as to ask the grand questions about society as these questions might relate to what we seek to accomplish through a different approach to discipline. Rather than argue for a 'solution' to a 'problem', or demonstrate a 'better way' to approach discipline, we seek to ask a series of questions about how modern people can organise themselves, and thus what we actually 'do' with the concept of 'discipline'.
- Subject
- discipline; utopian perspectives; dystopia; institutional definitions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931478
- Identifier
- uon:11077
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781433109669
- Language
- eng
- Hits: 1487
- Visitors: 1768
- Downloads: 0
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format |
|---|