EDUCATE, WATCH TO GOVERN: THE CLASS DIRECTOR TEACHER (CDT) AND THE REGULATION OF SCHOOL LIFE

Abstract

The article discusses, from a Foucautian analysis, the figure of the teacher who is the director of the class implemented in schools in Ceará, highlighting its history of creation, the objectives and impact on the educational context, as well as the implications of a practice that goes beyond the circumscription of the school and the time of work. Using document analysis as a methodology, normative and legal documents were examined. The results point to a change in the understanding and scope of the teaching practice, but maintaining it as the one that is responsible for generating awareness (in the sense of moral accompaniment and discipline), operating as a life-generating entity, and that, for that, must be the first to remain in certain moral and disciplinary conditions to serve as an example,  which configures a clear process of subjectivation involved in this context.  In this way, the function of the class teacher, more than a strategy for the improvement of learning, emerges as a way of controlling consciences, behaviors and adaptation to norms, as an effective way of surveillance and control of life.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.041-015