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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 begins by charting the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class and race. The book traces the development of progressive pedagogies from civil rights and women's liberation movements to the author's recent studies of "emotional intelligence" and "emotional literacy". She concludes by outlining a "pedagogy of discomfort" that examines empathy, fear and anger to negotiate ethics and difference. Drawing on the formulation of emotion as knowledge within feminist, psychobiological and poststructuralist theories, Boler develops a unique theory of emotion from contemporary educational discourses. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Part I Emotions as a Site of Social Control
ch. 1 Feeling Power Theorizing Emotions and Social Control in Education
ch. 2 Disciplined EmotionsLocating Emotions in Gendered Educational Histories
ch. 3 Capitalizing on Emotional “Skills” "Emotional Intelligence" and Scientific Morality
ch. 4 Taming The Liable Student Emotional Literacy Curricula

Part II Emotions as a Site of Political Resistance ch. 5 A Feminist Politics of Emotion
ch. 6 License To Feel Teaching in the Context of War(s)ch. 7 The Risks of Empathy Interrogating Multiculturalism's Gaze
ch. 8 A Pedagogy of Discomfort Witnessing and the Politics of Anger and Fear

Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index