Técnicas de vigilância e punição: o discurso da mídia sobre o professor e a escola

Abstract

From a foucaultian perspective power is a strategy and its effects are attributed to dispositions, moves, techniques and specific functioning. Based on this principle, this study has the objective of discussing the relations established between subject, discourse and identity through the analysis of media texts that refer to public school teachers and to schools. We defend that the discourse produced by the media functions as a regulation produced, approved and controlled by the State, constituting teachers’ identities. However, these identities are contradictory as these subjects at the same time accept the accusations, confessing their faults, and resist to the ways they are represented in the media. The text discusses some mechanisms used to produce such discourse, based on Michel Foucault genealogy texts, and analyzes media texts published in the last five years and reports produced by teachers in a course offered by the university.