ABSTRACT
Despite a lifetime in academia, Foucault paid very little attention to education as a topic of study, and even less to the study of educational leadership, management, and administration. Nevertheless, in his key text Discipline and Punish, he does spend some time analysing the development of schools as instruments of discipline and surveillance. Foucault’s main argument in the book is that developments in punishment and training that may be viewed as enlightened or progressive can actually be read as simply representing much { developments in prisons, the military, and education as part of the much ! changes, which could be heralded as civilized and democratic, are also much more subtle and ubiquitous instances of discipline and control.
