Contributors of these 13 articles analyze recent work in English and that by scholars from Germany and Belgium. Topics include research as problematization, pedagogic punishment, master-student relationships in antiquity, confessional practices, the relationship between critical ontology and the developmental model of childhood, the power analytical perspective on social work as government, the process of fostering and developing the entrepreneur of the self, social work and social movements as collective actors in movable and mobile orders, truth-telling at the world university, the ethics of self-creation in the future of education, games of truth and the ethics of subjectivity in research, discourse and government in critically framing education policy and Foucault's rather Hobbesian take on invoking democracy. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)