- Title
- Embodied logic: understanding discipline through constituting the subjects of discipline
- Creator
- Millei, Zsuzsa; Raby, Rebecca
- Relation
- Re-theorizing Discipline in Education: Problems, Politics & Possibilities p. 27-42
- Relation
- Complicated Conversation series 34
- Relation
- http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54288
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This chapter encounters the ways in which thinking about discipline in schools is connected to scientific and popular ideas of human nature, the 'process' of growing up, constitutions of 'the child' and 'the adolescent', and ideas of the modern subject and citizen. It examines some of the ideas that conjoin to inform theories, shape codes of conduct and create discourses of classroom discipline. One of the aims of this examination is to demonstrate the 'polyvalent' nature of classroom discipline discourses (Foucault, 1977). The other aim is to draw attention to their utilitarian use by individual teachers that produces embodied logics, that is, situation-specific, value-laden, shifting and diverse logics, to understand young persons as subjects of discipline and reasons for their disciplining. We will argue that to create this logic might be due to teachers' desiring to be rational or to be looked upon as making rational decisions in regards to issues with indiscipline. In this way, it is possible that this desire for rationality is what makes teachers' decisions sometimes illogical or contradictory.
- Subject
- discipline; classrooms; embodied logics; young people; teachers
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927233
- Identifier
- uon:10085
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781433109669
- Language
- eng
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