Synopses & Reviews
Schooling in the region known as Micronesia is today a normalized, ubiquitous, and largely unexamined habit. As a result, many of its effects have also gone unnoticed and unchallenged. By interrogating the processes of normalization and governmentality that circulate and operate through schooling in the region through the deployment of Foucaultian conceptions of power, knowledge, and subjectivity, this work destabilizes conventional notions of schooling's neutrality, self-evident benefit, and its role as the key to contemporary notions of so-called political, economic, and social development.
Review
Disassembling and Decolonizing School in the Pacific:A Genealogy from Micronesia is one of the most impressive, intellectually sophisticated works of scholarship on Micronesia that I have ever read.
Synopsis
List of Figures.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Where Do We Go From Here?.- 2. Theory, Power, and the Pacific.- 3. Atolls and Origins: A Genealogy of Schooling in Micronesia.- 4. Power and Pantaloons: The Case of Lee Boo and the Normalizing of the Student.- 5. Certifiably Qualified: Corps, College, and the Construction of the Teacher.- 6. The Mother and Child Reunion: Governing the Family.- 7. Conclusion: The Emperor is a Nudist: A Case for Counter-Discourse(s).- References.- Index.
Synopsis
Offering a counter-discourse to the accepted liberal metanarrative of schooling in Micronesia, this volume argues that across the Pacific region, American-developed school systems are today non-neutral cultural players with quasi-colonialist credentials.
Table of Contents
List of Figures.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.-