Foucault Goes to School
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
The present paper seeks to examine the pervasive influence of the ideas of twentieth century French intellectual Michel Foucault. Foucault undertook an incisive analysis of several institutions such as the mental hospital and prisons and how they were sites of subjectification of the human mind and body. Retracing the course of history, he also chartered out for his readers how the methods of disciplining and punishing had changed over centuries from public spectacles of violence to disciplinary meaures and survelliance. The present paper will seek to explore the playing out of these nuanced Foucauldian ideas in the fields of literature, media and education and utilise the Foucauldian lens to examine the apparently neutral institution of the society, the school. Keywords: School, Education, Foucault, Power, Knowledge, Normalization, Subjectification, Objectification, Discipline and Panoptican.
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Ms. Nidhi Seth, Ms. Swati Sehgal
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