Michel Foucault: knowledge and discipline in education
Abstract
The main issue posed by this thesis is the search for the relationship that, according to Foucault, knowledge as a discipline can have with the normalization of the subject in education. First, the basic aspects of the philosopher’s methodological assumptions are set, in order to approach the conception of the subject as self-care. Next, the place that the indivisible pair of power-knowledge occupies in the Human Sciences is examined, in order to seek the regulatory role of the relevant regimes of truth in the constitution of the subject. Then, the concept of subjectification through specific techniques of the self is outlined, in the context of the Educational Sciences as a complex of power-knowledge, the exercise of which makes the pedagogical subject become what it is. The thesis is concluded with a reference to the emergency of the current covid-19 pandemic as an exemplary case of the exercise of biopower in the institution of school. Finally, the present perspective aims at contri ...
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