This article takes elements of a Foucaultian analysis of discourse and examines discursive practices which circulate in elementary schools. Its purpose is to problematise certain concepts and certain enunciatory regularities and to demonstrate their implication for ordering our classrooms and for regulating teachers' practices. This work is based on the hypothesis that there is a kind of ordering in school discourse. That is, that there are certain rules that sanction and/or interdict the production and circulation of school discursive practices. At the same time, the circulation, the dissemination, the sharing of certain enunciations that make up these discursive practices have effects on the production of teachers' identities, on their ways of looking at the classroom, the students, education, in short, on the very materialisation of school education. The data analysed in this article was obtained through interviews, carried out with teachers at public elementary schools in two cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. When analysing the order of school discourse, I point to the existing harmony between what is said and done in public elementary school education.
elementary education; analysis of discourse; Michel Foucault