ABSTRACT

The paper examines school meetings held in a small democratic school in Poland in order to explore how school communities are formed. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power, the authors analyse fieldnotes and interview excerpts to reveal how voice and scripted bodily expressions accompanying verbal utterances are privileged in these school meetings to forge a community. Rather than being merely a space where students can act as empowered participants in democratic school governance, the school meetings are also argued to reduce the modalities of participation to voice and embodied forms of action and attention. Voiced participation is thereby instrumentalised to construct a democratic community with its dynamics of inclusions and exclusions. The paper concludes by pointing to reflexive engagements with utilising voice in democratic communities.

摘要

本文考察了在波兰一所小型民主学校举行的学校会议，以探讨学校社区是如何形成的。借鉴福柯的权力概念，作者分析了田野笔记和采访摘录，以揭示在这些学校会议中，伴随口头表达的声音和脚本化的身体表达是如何获得特权的，从而形成了一个社区。学校会议不仅仅是一个让学生在民主学校治理中充当授权参与者的空间，还认为学校会议将参与方式减少为表达和体现行动和关注的形式。因此，发声的参与有助于构建一个具有包容和排斥动态的民主社区。该论文最后指出了在民主社区中利用声音的反思性参与。