Dissecting Foucault’s Disciplinary Power From The Classroom Field

Foucault’s theory of micro-power changes the traditional view of power, and provides a new perspective about relationship between knowledge and power. Power is not just linked to state,but infiltrates every aspect of social life through techniques of discipline.The classroom filed exists common disciplinary phenomenon as an extension of the discipline organization. The application of discipline and punishment in school is the embodiment of the micro-power and the main way to build knowledge. Therefore, this paper mainly analyzes the distribute of space and time in the classroom filed and shows how does the surveillance and normalizing judgment and check act on the body, making the individual and its power more useful and conform to specification.This paper focuses on Foucault’s disciplinary power, discussing the characteristic of the power and the relationship between power and knowledge and its effect on the formation of specification in the process of cognition.This research can help us understand Foucault’s theory of micro-power better and discuss the normative significance of knowledge.In the mean time, we can analyze the modern society in the sight of the relationship among power, knowledge and body.