Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education

Abstract

"Carlson and Rodriguez have provoked a compelling collection of essays exploring what Foucault's conceptualization of friendship, which is about the collaboration and negotiation of relationship construction, might offer educators. Central to this concept is Foucault's notion of ascesis, or the work one does to invent one's self. Together, the scholars in this volume offer the possibility of transformation through teachers and students coming together and being in relation to one another, as visitors and as friends, while engaging in pedagogy, subversion, and strategic disorientation. Thus, the collection invites educators into "friendship[s] as ascesis" as a way of queering schools." -Mollie Blackburn, Professor of Teaching and Learning, Ohio State University, USA This book examines, within the context and concerns of education, Foucault's reflections on friendship in his 1981 interview "Friendship as a Way of Life."