CONFESSION DEVICES AND PRODUCTION OF TEACHING SUBJECTIVITIES

Abstract

Foucauldian studies have questioned how subjects produce experiences of themselves based on objectification and subjectification technologies in modern societies, based on the domain of theoretical reflections on technologies of the self. Such studies have the ‘confession’ as an important device that is mobilized by different institutional apparatus that produce subjectivities and are no longer restricted to ecclesiastical institutionalization. This work aims to analyze in the writings of teachers of the basic school how confession produces representations and subjectivations of teachers in the domain of a national teacher training program during this processes. The corpus consists of reports written at a training carried out by the Pacto Nacional Pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa - PNAIC (National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age) from 2014 to 2017, in Marabá, state of Pará. The speeches that circulate in the written reports and understood as “technologies of the self”, are translated into confession devices through which teachers, at the same time, subject themselves and are subjectivated as multipurpose professionals, from a totalizing and individualizing political order.