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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.
hind them by a group of people who hold certain ideas in common. The concept “discourse” originates from Latin “ dis- cursus ”, meaning “running to and from”, and generally refers to “written or spoken communication”. In the simplest sense, dis- course is conversation or information. For Foucault (1977), it is
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