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How Disciplinary Power is Accomplished Through Disciplinary Practices
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Norms & Standards
Normalizing human subjects
Self-discipline
Disciplinary
Practices
Foucault
Discipline the minds of Students: One way of thinking about Subject Matter
Study of discrete school subjects
Break off Ed Admin
Create a science of administration based on technical rationality
separate from social foundations & counseling
Fragment Knowledge
promote a form of rationality
facilitates control
Divide
practice
Shifting Views of Power
Claims extended about increasing rationalization of society
Weber
dahl
operationalize a definition of power so one could observe & measure who exercised power and to what extent
callahan
educational administration is colonized by efficiency experts from the fields of business & industrial psychology
power to promotes one's own interests (assumptions)
-refusal to act
-inability to see the need to act
a gets B to do x
A influences b's wants
-marx hegemony & false consciousness
luke
power is in the decisions that are made and the decisions that are kept off the agenda
bachrach & baratz
- Power is pervasive and unobtrusive beyond cognitive forms of control
- Microphysics of power that disciplines the body, mind & soul - Panopticon
- Power is embedded in social relations.
- Modern: through institutional relations that discipline our ways of thinking and acting through self-regulation.
- Colonization through administration of all social spaces & practices
foucault
Centrality of Discourse: Administration as Discursive Practice
modernist disciplinary practice - panopticon
Postmodern view of administration
- Professional socialization - post modernists reject the notion that best practices are the result of rational/scientific approach to a field of study/discipline (ex: ed admin)
- contributes to constitution of subjects as docile bodies (Ts, Ss)
- "regime of "truth"
- Cognitive politics
Admin Disciplinary Practices-Discursive practices - What is True & Important at a particular place & time
Discursive practices are the Link between knowledge & power
- forms of knowledge
- knowledge constituted in definite institutional & organizational practices
- knowledge reproduced through practices made possible by the framing of assumptions of knowledge
- discourses shape practices & practices produce discourses -circular dynamic (Cherryholmes)
discipline & power
- taken for granted "regimes of truth"
- genealogy
- form of history-accounts for constitution
- critical questioning disposition
- problematic
- circular process of discipline constitution
- events could have been constructed differently
- relation of staff development & supervision to 19th C inspection
- Change in techniques of inspection
- Collaborative action research & portfolios
Prevailing discourses
Power is exercised in all forms of social situations regardless of the form it takes
problematizing admin sciences
- Question ways of thinking & acting
- Discourse and organizational structure around efficiency, productivity and effectiveness
- Binary opposition
- Psychologizing & pathologizing to self-regulation (concealed power)
- failure of participatory reforms
- surveillance & assessment
- transgression & resistance
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