Abstract

VASQUEZ ZORA, Luis F. Teachers' Policies in Colombia. The Schoolteacher as Subject of Social Government. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2016, n.70, pp.223-245. ISSN 0120-3916.

This article describes how this social activity is the result of historical experiences and policies modalities -disciplinarian, normalizing, and of control-, which our society in specific times and places, set in motion certain orders of knowledge, specific forms of power with the aim of imposing teaching practices as development of sophisticated forms of social government. The theoretical-methodological instrument corresponds to the concept of teachers' policies, describes the conditions of formation, existence and disappearance of teaching as a practice produced under the action of specific positive reactions that define and formulate certain mechanisms and procedures of power which strive to do a teaching in social practice teaching, education and learning. The concept of teachers' policies is an instrument that seeks to showcase teaching as a set of religious and moral practices, normalizing and educational, productive and technical-scientific, professionalizing and of control, which performed between instances and subjects, result in the unique social functions to gather, to instruct, to discipline, to educate, to train, to stimulate innovation and skills as a set of specific effects of social government. The article shows that teaching is a practices historical, political and social, consisting of strategies and tactics of knowledge and power, through which institutions are calculated, prescribed, organized, conducted and related under the pretense of conforming teaching practices of government. Finally, it emphasizes that teachers have the power to appropriate, attribute and become a politics, ethics and aesthetics, transgressive teaching of self and others.

Keywords : Teachers' policies; Knowledge; Power; Practices.

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