Abstract

TRAVERSINI, Clarice Salete  and  LOPEZ BELLO, Samuel Edmundo. O numerável, o mensurável e o auditável: estatística como tecnologia para governar. Educ. Real. [online]. 2009, vol.34, n.02, pp.135-152. ISSN 0100-3143.

This article aims at analyzing the relationship between statistical knowledge and governmentality. In the first section, we have highlighted historical aspects of social practices in the constitution of statistics as a State knowledge. In the second section, we have shown how statistics has become a governing technology in the contemporary neo-liberal governmentality to manage areas of social risk. We have analyzed a program intended to reduce illiteracy in Brazil, showing, on the one hand, the uses of statistics knowledge in the program for managing the social risk, and, on the other hand, how numbers have operated to make the program auditable, that is, to keep its credibility when assessing the financial investment by means of the reduction in illiteracy.

Keywords : Statistics; Governmentality; Illiteracy; Educational Programs.

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