Inherited Time: A Hauntological History of Work in Educational Vocations

This book offers a fresh perspective on work showing how past events, ideas, practices and values haunt organizations.

In a contemporary context where organizations are ever more obsessed with growth and transformation, the book discovers a politics of time at the heart of questions about power and ethics. It develops a non-linear approach to the history of education showing what it means to inherit from previous generations and how encounters with ghosts can open possibilities of other, al...