RELIGIOSITY, DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL IN SPACES OF FORMAL EDUCATION

the production of docility of bodies by the school achitecture

Abstract

From the analysis of the achitecture of school space, this paper seeks to problematize discipline and religion as stratagies of control over students who are part of public institutions of Basic Education e Higher Education. Therefore, through photographies of five formal education institutions, we researched school spaces and we built, in dialogue with authors who study school, religiosity, disciplinary and discoursive power, understandings about the production of docility over the body and life of students. Through the images, we find spaces designed to exercise limits, rules of conduct, hierarchy and excessive surveillance. In these institutions, we are faced with verbal and non-verbal discourses that help in the maintanance of order of things and the silencing of subjectivities. We realize that the useful and obedient body that disciplinary power produces is very similiar to the efficient and resilient individual tha economicl globalization encourages today. In conclusion, we understand that school institution has difficulties in moving away from the religious specificity that created it, currently having religious interests defended in the educational agenda.