Blog Task: Has a Text changed or affirmed assumption or subject?

The Interview with Francessca was highly insightful into what children like and need to learn. . Even though children might respond well to play like education, it can be really difficult to control their behavior without teaching them how to sit and listen. “Younger children learn best through play; one of the best ways to maximize their learning is to encourage interactive exploration of objects and ideas. Moreover, children need opportunities to get involved in learning; first-hand play for young children is exciting and therefore facilitates learning and makes it more memorable for them.”(Fernandes F. 2016)
Fernandes underlines the importance of interactive education, and how an entertaining approach to education can help facilitate a more embedded learning experience for the child, however she believes that teachers who choose one over the other cannot provided the best possible education for their classroom, as discipline and the ability to conform is an important aspect of adult life. This notion from Fernandes interview affirms Focaults theory of power and discipline being a productive and in some aspects a pedagogical tool within society and so children are brought up to it in educational facilities. Foucault challenges the perception that power is wielded by people or groups by way of ‘episodic’ or ‘sovereign’ acts of domination, instead he sees it as dispersed and pervasive, but in terms of social constructionism he questions where discipline and power is placed within the social development. Foucault is most notable for recognizing that power is not just a negative repressive sociological occurrence that forces people to do things against their wishes, but can also be used as a necessary, productive and positive tool within society

 "We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’, it ‘censors’, it ‘abstracts’, it ‘masks’, it ‘conceals’.  In fact power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.  The individual and the knowledge that may be gained of him belong to this production" (Foucault, M. 1987). 

(Most of this blog content is taken from my dissertation work)