Image and Education: Teaching in the Face of the New Disciplinarity explores the importance of
the visual image in contemporary education. Kevin D. Vinson and E. Wayne Ross draw on a range
of (post)disciplinary traditions including the study of visual culture cultural studies
media studies and film studies as well as an array of significant thinkers such as Michel
Foucault Guy Debord Jean Baudrillard Marshall McLuhan Roland Barthes Mikhail Bahktin and
Daniel Boorstin. The authors take on the surveillance-based and spectacular conditions of
(post)modern schools and society and pursue not only a radical critique of the disciplinary
gaze but also the means by which teachers students and other interested stakeholders might
resist its various conformative anti-democratic anti-collective and oppressive
potentialities.
