Abstract

GOUVEA, Maria Cristina Soares de. Discourses, knowledge and power: a study of teachers' and experts' writings in portuguese educational journals. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2008, vol.21, n.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 XIX^th 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.

Keywords : Teachers; Experts; Discourses; Educational Journals.

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