Power goes to teachers students and discipline

For at least two decades discipline has been at or near the top of the list of public concerns about our schools.1 Nor should this surprise us; developing the mix of foresight, judgement, and self-control that enables (or perhaps just constitutes) "discipline" is an important task of childhood. As long as schools are places where part of a child’s education takes place, helping children develop discipline will be one of the "problems" — that is, …

…xx. 19 Paul Willis, Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). 20 See especially Michel Foucault, "Two Lectures," in Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings: 1972-1977, trans. Kate Sopor (New York: Pantheon, 1980), 90-91. 21 John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (New York: The Free Press, 1966). 22 Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkely, California: University of California Press, 1984).