Feeling Power: Emotions and Education

First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gen-der, class, and race. The book traces the development of progressive pedagogies from civil rights and feminist movements to Boler's own recent studies of emo-tional intelligence and emotional literacy. Drawing on the formulation of emotion as knowledge within feminist, psychobiological, and post structuralist theo-ries, Boler develops a unique theory of emotion missing from contemporary educa-tional discourses.

Author: Megan Boler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/24/1999
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.06w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780415921046

About the Author
Virginia Polytechnic University, and has published widely in the areas of cultural studies, feminist studies and philosophy.