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Challenging Perceptions of the Self and Notions of Personal Freedom

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In this chapter I extend this discussion to claim the traditional roles of family, parents and in particular that of teacher were ascribed roles - no longer given, signified by the title presented within the school site. I locate this assertion within a range of existential questions informing the students’ practices that suggest an ontological and epistemological shift in their understanding of how being human is managed and how knowledge is understood and developed within this processes. This position, stands at odds with current education policy though, which provides a framework through which to answer the question “How ought I to live?” but locates that framework within neo-liberal notions of selfhood. I illustrate these juxtaposed positions drawing on Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon (Bauman 2000; Foucault 1985).

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Edwards, S. (2018). Challenging Perceptions of the Self and Notions of Personal Freedom. In: Re-Engaging Young People with Education . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98201-4_9

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