FOUCAULT IDĖJŲ SKLAIDA ŠVIETIME: DISCIPLINUOJANČIOS MOKYKLOS DEMASKAVIMAS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOUCAULT’S IDEAS IN EDUCATION: UNMASKING OF DISCIPLINING SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the idea of education, which is understood as a system used for social control and social reproduction. Tthis notion is based on the philosophy of M. Foucault and his explanation of Bentham’s Panopticon. The main concepts of Foucault’s theory  – punishment, control, power, governmentality, construction of knowledge, and discourse – are used to define the education instruments for disciplining students. Foucault’s idea of a social system helps to perceive education policies and reforms as the practices that lead students and teachers to a one-way thinking and unreflected ritual behavior. This disciplining contradicts to the declarations of education policy-makers who emphasize the importance of developing a new democratic and self-governing school as well as promoting personal autonomy. Tthe instruments of control are investigated from the educational philosophy perspective, mostly in the tradition of critical pedagogy. Edwards, Usher, Apple, McLaren, Giroux, Burbules, Torres, Popkewitz, etc.   – the authors who rethink the problems of education in the framework of Foucault’s philosophy – are also presented in this article. Their works are used as a basis for criticizing the idea of liberalization and marketization of schools. article criticizes both the autonomy simulation process and the protection of the traditional moral values used by conservative forces to ensure the status quo at school.

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