Foucault’s Discourse and Power: Implications for Instructionist Classroom Management

Pitsoe, Victor J.; Letseka, Moeketsi

doi:10.4236/ojpp.2013.31005

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“…Concentrating upon discourse power aims not only to reveal how concepts became comprehensible, but also to consider what power relations are manifested. As a social construct, discourse is produced and perpetuated by those who possess the power and mediums of communication [33]. In addition, as Diamond and Quinby point out, discourse functions as "a form of power that circulates in the social field and can attach to strategies of domination as well as those of resistance" ( [34]:185).…”

Section: From Discourse To Narrative: Constructivist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Once a regime of truth is established, the corresponding techniques and procedures will be developed to infuse and ingrain the values that are considered to be true [33]. "Discourses are more than ways of thinking and producing meaning.…”

Section: From Discourse To Narrative: Constructivist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A nation that is able to control discourse on the world stage will be granted the right to organize world order and to assume power. Reinforcing the view that discourse is power, Foucault [40] reminds us that although discourse is able to produce, transfer and strengthen power, it can at the same time undermine and expose power, making it unstable and possible to thwart [33]. In brief, international society can be seen as an arena for a discourse-power struggle.…”

Section: From Discourse To Narrative: Constructivist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era

Chang

2020

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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The paper aims to address the development of China’s narrative power during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on world order. It argues that in the post-pandemic world, the emergence of the authoritarian sub-order would be prompted by China’s more proactive narrative power, given that the climate of opinion is ambiguous when faced with the uncertainty of the pandemic. (This does not imply the end of the existing liberal order; instead, it features the coexistence of both orders.) To understand how China’s narrative power has encouraged the emergence of the authoritarian sub-order to coexist in parallel with the dominant constitutional order, the article first reviews the existing literature concerning the changing world order. In this section, it also briefly defines and differentiates between the constitutional and authoritarian orders, what defines world order, and what distinguishes authoritarian from constitutional liberal order. Second it looks at the theoretical grounding. The nature, role and power of narratives are explored. Ideas about strategic narratives and the economics of attention are discussed. This theoretical background paves the way to examine China’s narrative power during a pandemic. Lastly, it switches to the Chinese perspective to address its support for the plurality of orders and its awareness of the strength of narrative in influencing dominant ideas. It looks at how China’s narrative power has been exercised from three perspectives (formation, projection and reception). Here, it mainly tackles how China has used its narrative power to spin the pandemic to its advantage in the reorganization of world order: improving its international image and advocating the authoritarian order as an alternative. China has been building its narrative along with its changing strategic diplomacy – from restrained and low-profile to proactive and assertive. In the conclusion, some reflections on China’s narrative power and the implications for world order are considered.

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Section: From Discourse To Narrative: Constructivist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Discourse To Narrative: Constructivist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Discourse To Narrative: Constructivist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era

Chang

2020

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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“…Here powerful means men and the weaker segment of society are women. Foucault also believed that morality, truth, and meanings are constructed through discourse (Pitsoe & Letseka, 2013). This study tries to know, how men are using schools textbooks against women to main their dominance in the existing social system.…”

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Gender Representation In Public Schools Textbooks Of Balochistan

Sultan

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Fazal

2020

PJASS

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Gender became the attention of contemporary scholarships when women were found in domestic issues as well as gender inequality in terms of job opportunities, education, health, political participation etc. Many studies have been carried out regarding women issues and provided policies and laws to provide opportunities for women to contribute in the society. So, gender presentation in school textbooks is newly emerging field of study in the academia. The present study focuses on women presentation in school textbooks of Balochistan. The English Books for Class I, to V were taken as sample for present study. These books were selected through purposive sampling. All conversations, texts and images related to women misrepresentation were taken from selected books. These data were analysed by the help of Michal Foucault’s theory of power/Knowledge and Discourse Analysis and also Cultural Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci. The findings of the present study suggest that textbooks of Balochistan are clearly misrepresenting women and promoting the male hegemony. The women are shown in domestic works and teaching jobs which are considered soft works. On the other hand, men are shown in school administrations, public domains, ownerships and in those jobs which need more power and energy. So, it is clear that schools textbooks promote the gender biased approach because men are shown in powerful, prestigious, well reputed and respectable jobs and women are shown in less respected and less valued positions.

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“…The term "discourse" originates from the French social theorist Michel Foucault who understood social narratives as being produced and disseminated through the way we speak, read, and think. Foucault was concerned specifically with how power was wielded by those in authority to construct a common narrative that advanced their view of the world (Strenski 2015;Pitsoe and Letseka 2013). Discourse differs from religion in how its central idea centers not on individual 'belief' but on how people act in accordance with how they believe others believe.…”

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Mushūkyō Identification and the Fragile Existence of Catholic Children in Japan

LeMay

2019

Religions

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This paper challenges the Japanese word mushūkyō as it is used to create a collective, non-religious identity that excludes religious practitioners. Mushūkyō, in addition to functioning as the antithesis of religion, produces the homogeneity Japanese desire for themselves. As Japan becomes increasingly more diverse in thought and ethnic background, it regulates this diversity by teaching young Japanese to subscribe to mushūkyō. This is achieved by controlling the friendships children have at school and by creating an environment that limits religious practice. The conflict between public schools and religion is epitomized by the Roman Catholic Church and the flight of its children. Nearly a decade of quantitative research at a Catholic Church located in the Tokyo suburbs is combined with ethnographic narratives of four Catholics to paint a picture of a Japanese more religiously partisan than previously imagined.

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Foucault’s Discourse and Power: Implications for Instructionist Classroom Management

Cited by 56 publications

References 7 publications

The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era

The Post-Pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era

Gender Representation In Public Schools Textbooks Of Balochistan

Mushūkyō Identification and the Fragile Existence of Catholic Children in Japan

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