CONTROLLED FREEDOM – THE FORMATION OF THE CONTROL SOCIETY

• Authors: Ludwig Pongratz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author´s analysis develops via the following five conceptual steps. The first step links up with Foucault’s analysis of techniques of “soft” discipline, which relates to “classical” reform pedagogy, in the transition period from the 19th to the 20th century. The second step thematises the shifts in these disciplinary techniques in the context of the crisis of the so-called “environments of enclosure”. Here there is a particular focus on Deleuze’s arguments concerning the emergence of a modern “society of control”. The third step considers the specific form of the “government of the social”, which Foucault approaches with the concept of governmentality. The fourth step aims to show that the current educational reforms can be understood as a “governmental strategy”. The fifth step, finally, thematises the inconsistency of governmental practices. It pursues the possibility that such practices advance, en passant or contrary to their aims, their own contradiction: the preparedness and capacity for critical opposition.

Keywords

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SOCIETY; DISCIPLINARY SOCIETY; EDUCATIONAL REFORM; GOVERNMENTALITY; PEDAGOGY

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 161 – 172

Contributors

author

Ludwig Pongratz

• Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut fűr Allgemeine Padagogik und Berufspadagogik, Alexanderstrasse 6, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany