Saberes e poderes no espaço escolar: o corpo como foco

Abstract

Based on the reflections of Foucault and others, knowledge and power within the school offers thought about the relationships within the school. In this study the body was chosen as a research subject to be considered the element permeated by knowledge and power, the scene of fights, disputes, differences, but also the space of possible resistance and ethics. In this process, we used dates provided by history to discuss how the discourses, practices and techniques built the idea of body prevalent in recent centuries. With the main objective of analyzing how the body becomes the target of constant attacks of knowledge and power in school, we chose a poststructuralist theoretical line to questioning some situations that have occurred in municipal schools at Juiz de Fora city, Minas Gerais, Brazil. More than finding answers, this study seeks to raise questions that can point the way to enable other ways of looking at this universe as challenging, choosing new perspectives.