Afterword [part 2]: governing bodies and minds. Issue 4 (4th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Novella, Enric
• Is Part Of: History of education. Volume 48:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 553
• Page End: 556
• Publication Date: 2019-07-04
• Subjects: Bodies -- minds -- pedagogy -- history of education -- governmentality; Education -- History -- Periodicals; 370.9
• DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2019.1588396
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0046-760X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This brief comment is intended to provide some remarks on the possibility of placing the particular entanglements of 'bodies and minds' presented in this special issue of History of Education in a broader theoretical and interpretative framework resorting to Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality. In my opinion, this analytical tool may be very fruitful for the historiography of education and other 'government practices' if we want to overcome the troubling dichotomy of 'bodies and minds' and interpret the varieties of pedagogical articulations of the corporeal and the mental in their singularity and in the context of the historical evolution of educational concepts and practices.