Ranciere, Public Education and the Taming of Democracy

Ranciere, Public Education and the Taming of Democracy introduces the political and educational ideas of Jacques Ranciere, a leading philosopher increasingly important in educational theory. In light of his ideas, the volume explores the current concern for democracy and equality in relation to education. The book introduces and discusses the works of Jacques Ranciere, a leading philosopher increasingly important in the field of educational theory and philosophyContent: Chapter 1 Introduction: Hatred of Democracy…and of the Public Role of Education? (pages 1–14): Maarten Simons and Jan MasscheleinChapter 2 The Public Role of Teaching: To keep the Door Closed1 (pages 15–30): Goele CornelissenChapter 3 Learner, Student, Speaker: Why it Matters how we Call those we Teach1 (pages 31–42): Gert BiestaChapter 4 Ignorance and Translation, ‘Artifacts’ for Practices of Equality1 (pages 43–59): Marc DeryckeChapter 5 Democratic Education: An (Im)possibility that yet Remains to Come (pages 60–75): Daniel Friedrich, Bryn Jaastad and Thomas S. PopkewitzChapter 6 Governmental, Political and Pedagogic Subjectivation: Foucault with Ranciere (pages 76–92): Maarten Simons and Jan MasscheleinChapter 7 The Immigrant has no Proper Name: The Disease of Consensual Democracy within the Myth of Schooling (pages 93–104): Professor Carl Anders SafstromChapter 8 Queer Politics in Schools: A Rancierean Reading1 (pages 105–120): Claudia W. RuitenbergChapter 9 Paulo Freire's Last Laugh: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy's Funny Bone through Jacques Ranciere (pages 121–133): Tyson Edward LewisChapter 10 Settling no Conflict in the Public Place: Truth in Education, and in Rancierean Scholarship (pages 134–149): Charles BinghamChapter 11 The Hatred of Public Schooling: The School as the mark of Democracy (pages 150–165): Jan Masschelein and Maarten SimonsChapter 12 Endgame: Reading, Writing, Talking (and Perhaps Thinking) in a Faculty of Education (pages 166–186): Jorge Larrosa