Knowledge is power’? A Lacanian entanglement with political ideology in education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12906255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Clarke (0000-0003-4693-248X, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-85 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508487.2015.977315 |
| OpenAlex | W2091391839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper explores the possibilities for critical policy analysis afforded by Lacanian discourse theory, with its emphasis on the unconscious and the agency of the letter, and considers its significance for critical policy analysis in education, in ways that complement and supplement the insights of post-structuralist discourse theory. To explore these possibilities, the paper examines the fantasies residing in neoliberal education policy’s vision of the knowledge economy, before focusing on a Lacanian analysis of the ideologies of knowledge and power manifested in the US KIPP (Knowledge is Power) charter school network, in order to think about how neoliberalism’s obsession with knowledge as control and mastery might be unsettled by what Lacan called ‘the sublimity of stupidity’ – by engagement with a psychoanalytic epistemology that recognizes how conscious knowledge may be interrupted by the unknowing of the unconscious and that places neoliberal regimes of knowledge in a dialectical relationship with non-knowledge, ignorance, stupidity and desire
Agency (philosophy · Critical theory · Dialectic · Education policy · Epistemology · Higher education · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of knowledge · Stupidity · Subjectification · Unconscious mind · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology
Children's Bodies in Schools
Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory
Choice without Equity
Research on Globalization and Education
Hatred of democracy
The Age of Discontinuity
Enjoying What We Don't Have
Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life
Post capitalist society
Radical Pedagogy
Planning in Ten Words or Less
Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy
Fantasies about work as limitless potential – how managers and employees seduce each other through dynamics of mutual recognition
It's in the Name
Articulating Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies
Qualitative Data Analysis After Coding
Doing Without Data
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |