Pedagogical power operates through guilt, obligation, and verification

Evidence

Culpabilization, obligation, and verification are the series of power relations exercised by the typical professor.’ But, as Foucault points out, at the College de France, courses are open to anyone who wishes to attend: “If it interests him, he comes; if it doesn’t interest him, he doesn’t come.”* At the College a professor is paid to present his work, and “it 1s up to the audience to say or to show whether or not it is interested” — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 12

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the professor-student power relation as culpabilization, obligation, and verification — a compact model of disciplinary pedagogy.
• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s later Discipline and Punish and the general theme of the reader’s toolkit: how institutional arrangements of power are built into knowledge transmission. — connects to: Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload; Authoritarian pedagogy produces docility that serves the oppressor’s interests — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5000; The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284 (+3 more)

Related

• Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
• Authoritarian pedagogy produces docility that serves the oppressor’s interests #expands (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 5000
• Buddhist tradition has a consistent anti-coercive pedagogical ethic #contradicts (0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 4006