Intelligence testing, ethnicity, and construction of the deviant child: Foucault and special education in Sweden
In this article, I discuss how Foucault may help us to reach a different understanding of special education. This article primarily draws on two analytical tools from Foucault’s ‘toolbox’: genealogy and governmentality. These tools are used to analyse three different cases of intelligence testing fr...
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Language: | English |
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Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget
2016-03-01
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Series: | Nordic Journal of Social Research |
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Online Access: | https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/njsr/article/view/2093 |