Surveillance and power in the classroom: the influences of the panopticon in the foreign language teaching environment

Schools are generally considered panopticons, since they allow, through their architectures, surveillance of both learners and teachers. It is believed that this control, supposedly uninterrupted may trigger different effects of power in the relationship between these subjects. In order to look at t...

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Autor: Severian, Marina Rosa
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP)
Repositorio:Revista EntreLínguas (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/9434
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/entrelinguas/article/view/9434
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Foreign language teaching. Scholar panopticon. Surveillance. Power.
Enseñanza de lengua extranjera. Panóptico escolar. Vigilancia. Poder.
Ensino de língua estrangeira. Panóptico escolar. Vigilância. Poder.
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Resumo:Schools are generally considered panopticons, since they allow, through their architectures, surveillance of both learners and teachers. It is believed that this control, supposedly uninterrupted may trigger different effects of power in the relationship between these subjects. In order to look at the influences of panoptic theory in foreign language classrooms, we rely on the Benthanian and Foucaultian theory of the concept of panopticon to discuss how power and surveillance can be established in two distinct scenarios of classroom. Based on these scenarios, we believe that the physical structure of the classroom can be a determining factor to intensely or subtly maintain the effects of power through surveillance.