In the work Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault thinks over the discipline power, that emerged at the early modern age in different social institutions, and consolidated in the 19th century, having as main strategies the organization of the space, the time control, the panoptic surveillance, the organization of forces and the continuous production of written records. In this work several examples of school institutions that set in motion the discipline power are quoted, such as Jesuit schools, elementary schools of charity from Lasallian, and the mutual education. This article aims to put the focus over this schooling cases read by Foucault aiming to problematize them aware of sociological works inspired by Norberto Elias and Pierre Bourdieu, that use social markers as gender and social class to understand society and school.
Michel Foucault; schooling; discipline; social class