The contribution deals with changes of pattern of order in conceiving the work of teachingfrom mechanical to biological representations. This restructuring is displayed by the use of the school textbooks in shaping instructional practice in Bavarian popular schools at the end of the 19th century. While the use of textbooks was seen by the state as an assurance against the teachers freedom, the textbooks represented also the �died� world of the paper and the danger of a mechanistic instruction. For that reason, inspectors, teachers and bureaucrats emphasised that schoolbooks shouldn't suffocate the teacher's work which was the �enlivening� element of leadership in the classroom against the �died� world of paper and books. This shifting from an instruction shaped by books towards the �enlivening� role of teaching is analysed as a change in the strategy of government of childhood related to Foucault's concept of biopolitics
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