%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°WORDS ARE LIKE X-RAYS¡±: EDUCATION AS A MECHANISM OF CONTROL IN ALDOUS HUXLEY¡¯S BRAVE NEW WORLD
%A Prtenja£¿a
%A Zvonimir
%J -
%D 2019
%X Sa£¿etak The concept of education has been implicitly or explicitly present as a central theme of the modern dystopian fiction stemming from the early twentieth century, so it comes as no surprise that it plays a pivotal role in Aldous Huxley¡¯s nightmarish society aptly described in his seminal novel published in 1932, Brave New World. Taking into account John Dewey¡¯s famous dictum which states that ¡°the conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind¡± (1997: 101), this paper aims to explore Huxley¡¯s novel as a fictionalised warning against how exactly education1 can be used as a mechanism of mass control and a tool of societal exploitation. It aspires to do so by applying two theoretical frameworks in concord with surveillance pedagogy: Paulo Freire¡¯s banking concept of education and Michel Foucault¡¯s docile bodies and bio-power
%K Brave New World
%K education
%K Foucaldian docile bodies and bio-power
%K Freirean banking concept
%K ideology
%K power
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