Abstract

MONTEIRO, Leonardo Henrique Brandão. (IN)DISCIPLINE AND VISIBILITY: considerations about tensions and ambiguities in the school. Revista Teias [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.68, pp.176-192.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2022.51239.

This paper is dedicated to think on the logic (in) discipline and its embodiments in the school environment. It attempts to draw an intelligibility line that allows understanding student behaviors read as undisciplined by school professionals, as well as the way in which these behaviors end up connecting and (re)updating this logic. The methodology of this work includes the discussion of empirical data taken from an ethnography and semi-structured interviews with school actors. These data will be articulate with a bibliographic review. The dimensions of the behaviors read as undisciplined are discussed in order not to automatically allocate them to the pole of resistance, but to problematize this allocation. It also points out the importance of considering issues involving pleasure/power dynamics between the poles of normalization/resistance, as well as the existence of a game between seeing and being seen existing at school, in which the behaviors classified as undisciplined are central. These reflections will lead us to conclude that the existence of the school in the disciplinary model as we know it today persists within the (in)discipline logic, because at the same time that it dislocates bundles of power within the institution, it reinforces the school, as an institution, at all time.

Keywords : school discipline; school indiscipline; micropolitics; see/be seen; pleasure/power.

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