The banality of education policy
Discipline as extensive evil in the neoliberal era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Clarke (0000-0003-4693-248X, corresponding author), C Haines Lyons (0000-0001-8341-744X), E M Walker (0000-0002-4494-8093), Linda Walz (0000-0002-7283-8473), Jordi Collet-Sabé (0000-0001-8526-9997), Kate Pritchard |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 187-204 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17577438211041468 |
| OpenAlex | W3189928992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 39 |
Education is usually considered a force for good, associated with hope and optimism about better individual and social futures. Yet a case can be made that education and education policy in recent decades, far from being a force for good, has had nefarious effects at multiple levels. This can be seen in the growing alienation of significant numbers of teachers and students in disparate global contexts and in the growth of authoritarian models of schooling, involving ‘zero-tolerance’, ‘no excuses’ disciplinary approaches, that have undermined notions of the common school as a public good. Against this background, and drawing on philosophical literature and our own empirical research, this study interrogates the practice in schools in England of placing students in ‘isolation’. In considering this practice as an instance of banal education policy, our study makes obvious reference to Hannah Arendt’s characterization of evil in her account of Adolf Eichmann’s trial. But it also draws on the work of moral philosophers, Elizabeth Minnich and Simona Forti, in relation to the distinction between intensive and extensive evil, in order to analyse the nature and effects of school discipline policies and practices such as isolation in the neoliberal era as a contemporary form of evil
Alienation · Authoritarianism · Democracy · Discipline · Epistemology · Futures contract · Isolation (microbiology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
No other choice
Restricting Digital Device Use in Schools
Sociology of Emotions
The emotional landscape of social class in English education
Sticking to the core or going beyond? The Austrian freedom party’s educational approach in a longitudinal perspective
Toilet talk
Schools as Educational Common Places in an Era of Superdiversity
Teacher competence discourses
If you can’t beat them, join them’
The new normal isn’t normal
After-Education
Willful Subjects
Solitary Confinement
Privilege
Global Education Inc.
Globalizing Education Policy
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Meaning and Melancholia
The Limits of Neoliberalism
Giving an Account of Oneself
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Law and evil
The evil of banality
Children, their world, their education
Journal of education policy – 1985–2020
From Exam Factories to Communities of Discovery
Governing new authoritarianism
The errors of redemptive sociology or giving up on hope and despair
Radical education and the common school
Democratic Education for Hope
The Evil of Banality
Becoming Eichmann
Frames of war
Teacher alienation in Hong Kong
The Moral Neoliberal
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |