If for any reason the sign up sheet is taken down and the students have missed a there chance to sign up, a thick black marker is placed through their name, which allows staff and fellow students to "judge at a glance, without being concealed" (Foucault, 1977 p67). This brands that particular student as an outcast, isolating and excluding them from the there fellow peers. This formalisation of the sign up sheet is introduced from the beginning of the course which the tutors (people with the knowledge and power) indoctrinate the students affectively conforming and becoming docile bodies creating a disciplined society within the course.
Monday 29 November 2010
Panoticism Blog Task
Sign up sheets can be seen as an example of panopticism in contemporary society. The sign up sheet is a form of register which is put up on the board on a daily basis, "permanent registration" (Foucault, 1977 p61.) unbeknown to the students whether it is going to be up on the board or not, this creates a "state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power." (Foucault, 1977 p65) therefore a student regulates his or her actions to sign in early in fear of being late. With this in mind there is the burden and anxiety of having to sign in not knowing whether the register is left up all day allowing students to sign in at will throughout the day or not. Each day " never know whether he is being looked at any one moment, but he must be sure that he may always be so" (Foucault, 1977 p65). Each student is always conscious of if whether or not the register is left up all day allowing students freely to sign in, it allows them to make the choice as to whether there attendance is being assessed or not. The control the tutors hold is mentally driven, physiological burden which can lead to warnings and exclusion from the course if there is a failure to sign in.
If for any reason the sign up sheet is taken down and the students have missed a there chance to sign up, a thick black marker is placed through their name, which allows staff and fellow students to "judge at a glance, without being concealed" (Foucault, 1977 p67). This brands that particular student as an outcast, isolating and excluding them from the there fellow peers. This formalisation of the sign up sheet is introduced from the beginning of the course which the tutors (people with the knowledge and power) indoctrinate the students affectively conforming and becoming docile bodies creating a disciplined society within the course.
If for any reason the sign up sheet is taken down and the students have missed a there chance to sign up, a thick black marker is placed through their name, which allows staff and fellow students to "judge at a glance, without being concealed" (Foucault, 1977 p67). This brands that particular student as an outcast, isolating and excluding them from the there fellow peers. This formalisation of the sign up sheet is introduced from the beginning of the course which the tutors (people with the knowledge and power) indoctrinate the students affectively conforming and becoming docile bodies creating a disciplined society within the course.
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