Commentary Week Ten

Mike Calou Commentary Week Ten Panopticism The reading this week reminds me of the power structure within the classroom. Using Foucault’s analysis of Jeremy Bentham’s 1785 panopticon model the tower represents the teacher. The principle of visible and verifiable power,…

Panopticon

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…

Commentary on Foucault, 4-21-09

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

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…