Disciplined Development: Teachers and Reform in Ghana

by Laura J. Dull

Drawing on Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power and Gramsci's theories on hegemony, Laura J. Dull argues in this insightful volume that Ghanian teachers' diverse roles-as moral disciplinarians, ambivalent partners with global donors and lenders, romantic racialists of Africans-illustrate the ways in which educators deploy history and nationalism as strategies of power in support of, but also in opposition to, dominant systems. On the one hand,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739110500
• ISBN13: 9780739110508
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"