Resumen de Power and control: Managing public education past and present
Society today generally appears to accept public schools as both a right and a responsibility. Public school discourse ts threaded through with arguments regarding the development of 'good citizens' and preparing students 'for life'. This paper uses a Foucauldian lens to explore this discourse through a historical study of British Columbia (BC), Canada. Like Foucault it delves into history to review how and for what reasons public schools were established. It then describes how public school advocates were able to, and continue today to, overcome resistance through the intersection of discourse and action, or knowledge and power.
