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Author	Allen, Ansgar.
Title	Benign violence.
Publication Info	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Descript	1 online resource (309 p.)
Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	Cover; Title; Copyright; Frontispiece; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; I Bodies; On Progress; Modern Examination; Educated Bodies; A Child's Interior; II Populations; On Forgetting; The Violence of Power; Make Live and Let Die; Improving the Breed; III Meritocracies; Our Eugenic Religion; The Occasional Hero; Lives Redistributed; After Fairness; Notes; Index
Note	Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence.
	200 annual accesses.
ISBN	9781137272867

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Descript	1 online resource (309 p.)
Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	Cover; Title; Copyright; Frontispiece; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; I Bodies; On Progress; Modern Examination; Educated Bodies; A Child's Interior; II Populations; On Forgetting; The Violence of Power; Make Live and Let Die; Improving the Breed; III Meritocracies; Our Eugenic Religion; The Occasional Hero; Lives Redistributed; After Fairness; Notes; Index
Note	Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence.
	200 annual accesses.
ISBN	9781137272867

Author

Descript	1 online resource (309 p.)
Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	Cover; Title; Copyright; Frontispiece; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; I Bodies; On Progress; Modern Examination; Educated Bodies; A Child's Interior; II Populations; On Forgetting; The Violence of Power; Make Live and Let Die; Improving the Breed; III Meritocracies; Our Eugenic Religion; The Occasional Hero; Lives Redistributed; After Fairness; Notes; Index
Note	Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence.
	200 annual accesses.
ISBN	9781137272867

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