International Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 4
First page : ( 246) Last page : ( 263)
Online ISSN : 2249-7382.

A critical exploration of school education policy, using Foucaultian genealogy and discourse analysis, with regards to the construction of the student as a particular form of subjectivity in private schools in TamilNadu’, India

Harrell Lydia

Online published on 20 April, 2017.

Abstract

The research aims to critically analyse the discourses that are evident in the private and international schools in TamilNadu, India which affect the construction of student subjectivities, through the use of Foucaultian genealogy and discourse analysis. The schools in TamilNadu (TN) have been classified into three types, the state run schools, private schools and the International schools. The research methods chapter will explain the process of Foucauldian discourse analysis that will be employed in the research which involves data selection and data analysis. Data selection explains the most important sources of data that will be critically examined in this research which includes specific school documents of private schools including prospectus, websites, curriculum and education policy documents, survey reports and media sources which will be studied in relation to one another. Data analysis uses genealogy to document the historical conditions that tell us about the ideas that construct the current private school education system in TamilNadu, India. Foucault's concepts of discourse analysis and genealogy, which will be used in the analysis of data, will also be discussed. Based on reviewing the documents, the prominent links between the contemporary discourses and the historical discourses with regard to the government schools in TN are identified.

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