Foucault s Discourse and Power: Implications for ...

Open Journal of Philosophy 2013. , , 23-28 Published Online February 2013 in SciRes ( ) Copyright 2013 SciRes. 23 Foucault s Discourse and Power: Implications for Instructionist Classroom Management Victor Pitsoe, Moeketsi Letseka Department of Educational Leadership and Management, College of Education, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Email: Received October 23rd, 2012; revised November 27th, 2012; accepted December 8th, 2012 This article picks up on Foucault s radical reconceptualisation of concept power , and presents a signifi- cant challenge to contemporary discourses surrounding instructionist classroom management. We critique his approach to instructionist classroom management on the basis that it conceptualises power as domina- tion in dealing with disruption in the classroom.

analytical techniques (such as archaeology, and genealogy) and arguments (as pertaining to the intimate embrace of knowledge and power, and ways in which human subjects relate ethically ... Foucault holds that truth, morality, and meaning are created through discourse. In every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected ...

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