ABSTRACT
This chapter explores school's potential as both a site of physical culture injustice and of empowering forms of corporeal knowledge and understanding. It focuses on how various scholars have arrived at particular understandings of the corporeal practices, discourses and subjectivities through which young bodies become civilized and represented in schools, and the presentation of data generated within a larger project looking at the 'health work'. The chapter also focuses on the Foucauldian concepts to explain the surveillance of young bodies in schools and how technologies of domination and technologies of the self define young bodies in schools. It expresses that the subjectivities, practices and discourses of young bodies are always in a particular set of complex social, economic, political and technological relationships that comprise the social context. The child in Western liberal democratic societies is 'positioned as a special category of person who lacks for a time the complete range of capacities necessary to function fully as a citizen'.
