Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2023, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 117-130.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2023.02.010

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Knowledge and Power in Education: Approaching the Ideological World of Thomas S. Popkewitz

Guorui Fan   

  1. Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Online:2023-02-01 Published:2023-01-18

Abstract:

Professor Thomas S. Popkewitz of the University of Wisconsin Madison in the United States, in his half-a-century educational research career, has widely absorbed the academic ideas of the French Almanac School, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, and has embedded major educational issues such as educational reform, curriculum and teaching, teacher development and teacher education, and educational evaluation into the vision of social history and cultural structure. And, according to the concepts of institution, rationality, society, institution, knowledge, power, governance and “alchemy”, he explained and revealed the structural relationship of knowledge and power implicited in the multidimensional interaction of time and space.

Key words: Popkewitz, social epistemology, rational system, alchemy