ABSTRACT
The four target children started school for the first time during the data collection process. For three of the families this was their first experience with schooling, which meant that routines and daily domestic practices were altered as families adapted to the changed circumstances. Modifying routines because of involvement in institutionalized schooling introduced the possibility of child resistance because children were exposed to particular discursive frameworks and techniques that they may not have encountered previously. These techniques are indicative of how discipline organizes space, the forms of activity that occur in those spaces, and the timing of such events: “Discipline is a political anatomy of detail” (Foucault, 1977, p. 139). The regime of practice about schooling involved preparation for school, car travel to and from school, and actual school attendance itself.
