This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the ‘pedagogical state’ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically interrogate the cultural practices of governing citizens in contemporary liberal societies. Governing through pedagogy can be identified as an emerging tactic by which both state agencies and other non-state actors manage, administer, discipline, shape, care for and enable liberal citizens. Hence, discourses of ‘active citizenship’, ‘participatory democracy’, ‘community empowerment’, ‘personalised responsibility’, ‘behaviour change’ and ‘community cohesion’ are productively viewed through the conceptual lens of the pedagogical state. Chapters consider the spaces of schools, universities, the voluntary sector, civil society organisations, parenting initiatives, the media, government departments and state agencies as fruitful empirical sites through which pedagogy is worked and re-worked.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
This book explores the changing nature of contemporary governance in liberal societies. It argues that public policy and social life are becoming increasingly pedagogical , that is, increasingly informed by an impetus to re-educate citizens. The book examines the consequences of such trends for a critical politics.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
1. Introduction: the pedagogical state: education, citizenship,
governing Jessica Pykett
2. Citizenship Education and narratives of pedagogy
Jessica Pykett
3. Enrolling ordinary people: governmental strategies and the
avoidance of politics? John Clarke
4. Bad stories: narrative, identity, and
the states materialist pedagogy Clarissa Rile Hayward
5. Educating the new
national citizen: education, political subjectivity and divided societies
Lynn A. Staeheli and Daniel Hammett
6. A broadcasting university: educated
citizenship and civil prudence Michael Bailey
7. Supernanny, parenting and a
pedagogical state Richenda Gambles
8. Towards a pedagogical state? Summoning
the empowered citizen Janet Newman
9. Learning beyond the state: the
pedagogical spaces of the CAB service Rhys Jones
10. The third level of US
welfare reform: governmentality under neoliberal paternalism Sanford F.
Schram, Joe Soss, Linda Houser and Richard C. Fording
11. University and
Citizenship: University as a Space for Enacting Citizenships * NEW CHAPTER*
Maki Kimura
12. Youth Media Enterprise: Ethos, Administration and Pastoral
Care. * NEW CHAPTER* Denise Meredyth
Jessica Pykett is a lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University where she is researching the politics of governing through behaviour change, and the ascendance of libertarian paternalism in UK public policies.
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