Offering a contemporary analysis, this textbook challenges common misconceptions surrounding mass education in the United Kingdom. It presents a thorough examination of familiar myths, making the subject accessible to a wide audience. The book aims to provide insights into the complexities of educational systems and their societal implications, encouraging critical thinking about the narratives that shape public understanding of education.
Focusing on the intertwining of ethics, rights, and justice, this book explores how these concepts shape education as a social good and a foundation for inclusive communities. It encourages the development of everyday philosophy to guide educational choices, emphasizing the need for an ethical predisposition. The authors take readers through the conceptual underpinnings of these themes, aiming to formulate a vision of a fair society and highlighting how ethical approaches in schooling can either support or hinder this goal.
For nearly twenty-five years, the field of youth studies has employed the same conceptual tools to explain the conduct of young people, tools that inexorably lead to the same recurrent conclusions – youth equals resistance, youth equals alienation, youth equals problem. Youth, Sex, and Government offers a way out of this theoretical Groundhog Day. Starting with the familiar notion of youth subcultures, but also addressing topics such as young women's magazines, «at-risk» youth, anorexia nervosa, and HIV/AIDS programs, this book examines the way in which youth is produced as both a governmental object and a set of practices of the self. Employing the ideas of Foucault, Rose, and Mauss, this new approach attempts to reinvigorate what is an important – yet slumbering – area of research.