Abstract

VALLE VAZQUEZ, Ana María  and  JIMENEZ GARCIA, Marco Antonio. The school as a factory of subjects. Genesis of scholar modernity in Mexico. ETD [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.4, pp.642-668. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v19i4.8648659.

Fabrication of subjects, comes to light: in war, in race struggles and through discipline and normalization. All of the above is shown through an analysis of specific school practices in modern Mexico. The methodology used in this text problematizes the term "school", as a factory of subjects, with the help of terminology used by Foucault.Just like Foucault, we argue that it is not about asking subjects how, why and in the name of which specific right (divine, economic or legal) they can accept or let themselves be dominated but about how subjects are fabricated through specific relations of domination. In the exercises of power there is no neutral subject because we are always and forcefully somebody's adversary. In this essay, we argue that the teacher is the subject of the exercises of power that occur within primary education. In this sphere, the primary school teacher and Normal school graduate submits to power relations such as: racial distinction, the normalization of knowledge and the medical work that is at the service of the state. This relations of power in life and about life are the ways in which we have defended the modern society we live in.

Keywords : Modern School; Fabrication of Subjects; Exercise of Power; Discipline; Normalization.

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