GOVERNMENTALITY AS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL AND EDUCATION

Abstract

The following essay emerges from a meticulous bibliographic research with a hermeneutic and analytical approach. The core of this investigation revolves around the theme of governmentality and its representation in Michel Foucault's work entitled "Security, Territory, and Population." Our primary objective is to reconstruct the concept of governmentality, highlighting it as an analytical tool employed by Foucault to elucidate the evolution of the mode of governance, transitioning from a pastoral power to a governmental power of management through devices that regulate the population by means of middle-ground governance. Furthermore, this essay aims to demonstrate how the category of governmentality can be applied to comprehend education as a population management device. In this context, education takes shape as a mode of management aligned with neoliberal logic.