The docile body – Reflecting the school

• Authors: Zuzana Bánovčanová , Dana Masaryková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with corporeality in the school environment from a historical perspective. The body has tended to appear and disappear in the discourse and scientific disciplines and has permeated education. This permeation can be viewed traditionally within Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological theory of the “lived body” but also in school discipline. Discipline is typically used to organise the school and is unquestionably associated with the body and corporeality. In this article, we therefore rely on Foucault’s theories. Docile bodies are typically found in schools and classrooms and are shaped by the institution so that they are easy to manage and control. In part, we demonstrate this using handwriting in schools as an example.

Keywords

EN

discipline; Foucault; school; body; education

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Pedagogy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 251-264

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2014-11-25

Contributors

author

Zuzana Bánovčanová

• Trnava University Faculty of Education Department of School Pedagogy Premyslená 4 918 43 Trnava Slovakia

author

Dana Masaryková

• Trnava University Faculty of Education Department of School Pedagogy Premyslená 4 918 43 Trnava Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/jped-2014-0012