Poder, saber y escuela

Abstract

The power relations that operate in all social spheres condition the organization of society through different devices and institutions, legitimising the behaviours and individualities considered appropriate, and therefore accepted, at a given historical moment. On the other hand, knowledge relations are inherent to power relations which they provide with a foundation in order to validate their assumptions, admitting as true a series of knowledge in a specific period. Educational institutions, due to their social character, are also traversed and conditioned by power and knowledge relations and by the discourses and practices that emanate from these relations. The analysis from Michel Foucault's methodological perspective of concepts such as discourse, education, and the configuration of the subjectivities of subjects and their unquestionable link with power and knowledge relations, are the subjects of analysis of this work.