Foucault shows up everywhere. I guess that’s what happens when you’re considered one of the greatest thinkers of your time. Foucault wrote this in response to Jeremy Bentham’s work in the late eighteenth century and his development of a disciplinary…
English 5870
Commentary on Foucault, 4-21-09
by mgarcia5 • • 2 Comments
Foucault’s metaphor of the Panopticon is relevant to our course in an ethnographic approach to classroom observation in that it emphasizes the “disciplined” infiltration of “the all seeing eye” into society as a whole, and in particular, into the schools. …
Focoult Commentary
by Keri • • 1 Comment
Foucault Commentary “Part Three: Discipline 3. Panopticism” After reading this article I found that I was extremely bothered by this idea of the all seeing eye that can see us at all times even though we can’t…
Commentary #7 – Foucault
by Amble • • 2 Comments
Amble Hollenhorst Dr. De Vries ENGL 5870 21 April 2009 Commentary #7 Our society is the panopticon, each individual is both a captive and an observer. We have no king, no guard that we can distinguish. Indeed, as we have…
Class Log for 3/24/09
by mgarcia5 • • 0 Comments
Maria J. Garcia Class Log for English 5870: 3/24/09 6:10 pm- Faye distributed log notes regarding our 3/l7/09 class meeting; she goes into a review and summary of said notes From class of 3/17/09: can we be aware…
The Universal Panopticon
by James • • 7 Comments
James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries English 5870 Spring 2009 “It programmes, at the level of an elementary and easily transferable mechanism, the basic functioning of a society penetrated through and through with disciplinary mechanisms.” I would say that…
Commentary 7
by tbell • • 7 Comments
Tina Bell English 5870 21 April 2009 Commentary 7 I do not really understand what Michel Foucault is saying. Well, this is not exactly true. I think I understand a substantial portion of what he is saying, but I am…
Midterm Question 1 Response.
by James • • 1 Comment
In the end, ethnology is an extremely personalized research method, and is useful specifically for that reason, but that is also its greatest weakness, so I would suggest that in addition to teachers being ethnographers in their own right, they also read many different ethnographies by others in order to get perspective on the workings of many classrooms.
Midterm response Question #5
by James • • 1 Comment
I am truly wondering, searching, and curious. I am not entirely sure what I am searching for either which fits in well with an ethnographic perspective. I don’t know what i have to learn, I just know that I have a lot to learn, and every opportunity that I come across, I try to learn something. This is an interesting class because if has interesting readings, and it forces me to actually examine what I and other people are doing each and every day. And then I have to try to make sense of it in a comprehensible theoretical framework…that is the hard part.
Mid-term ENGL 5870
by nweidner • • 1 Comment
Ned Weidner ENGL 5870 Dr. DeVries 4/8/09 1) Developing and articulating a working definition of ethnography is important to me so that I can better understand the work we are doing this semester as ethnographers. However, developing a concrete…