ABSTRACT
Stephen Ball argues that the discipline of the Sociology of Education has failed to put into question its participation in the production of the learner, teachers, and education itself—in other words, its participation in the government of populations. Revisiting my PhD thesis, on the educational stories of youths from informal settlements (villas) of Buenos Aires, I draw on Emmanuel Levinas' critique of ontology to attempt a response to this problem. The chapter works through the tensions of two forms of subjection identified in the research process: the subjection to the Sociology of Education as a discursive formation (truth) and the subjection to the presence of the Other (ethics). On this basis, I revise the politics of my PhD thesis and attempt a different narrative.
