Abstract

GOMES, Rui Machado. As tecnologias de governo do eu e a escola (1974-1991). Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2001, n.37, pp.49-75. ISSN 0873-6529.

The common denominator in processes that entail the legitimisation of an education system (as seen both from the point of view of the state bureaucracy and from some more critical standpoints) is the humanist myth of the complete and full development of individual personality. However, individual potential is not limited to this capacity, nor can one consider it to be the be-all and end-all of a person’s life. The ability to problematize "oneself" is derived from techniques and practises that are situated on the same level as other corporal or awareness techniques and possesses its own place in the story thereof. This article provides a critical "genealogy" of scholastic practises - particularly those which draw their inspiration from the fields of cognitive development and socio-moral development - which place human beings who are undergoing training in specific self regimes. It offers a different view to those taken by analyses that see changes in subjectivity as the result of more general cultural and social transformations. The underlying study is based on Portuguese secondary schools from the fall of the "New State" (1974) until the beginning of the 1990’s.

Keywords : Technologies; self; subjectivity; citizenship.

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