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Revista Portuguesa de Educação

 ISSN 0871-9187

GOUVEA, Maria Cristina Soares de. Discourses, knowledge and power: a study of teachers' and experts' writings in portuguese educational journals. []. , 21, 2, pp.91-114. ISSN 0871-9187.

The paper analyses teachers' and experts' discourses about students in Portuguese educational periodicals of the last decades of the XIXth century. In this sense, it focuses the singularity from the discourses related to the professional identity of the authors. Its possible to identify that the experts writings were founded on a scientificist perspective, which characterized that historical period. On the other hand, the teachers discourses were the expression of a technical knowledge, related to their professional writing practices. Its possible to observe a social hierarchical relationship between the two discourse productions, associated with the relationships between knowledge and power.

: Teachers; Experts; Discourses; Educational Journals.

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