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Comenius,moral and pious education,and the why,when and how of school discipline

Authors:	Björn Norlin

Institution:	1. Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Ume? University , Ume?, Sweden bjorn.norlin@umu.sehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6196-401X

Abstract:	ABSTRACT The present study provides an analysis of John Amos Comenius’s thoughts on moral and pious education, educational governance and school discipline as expressed in Didactica Magna. This is examined from the background of his view of education as a societal phenomenon, the purposes of different categories of knowledge for individual formation and the role of pedagogy in the upbringing of children. Theoretically, this paper expands on Michel Foucault’s ideas about governmentality and discipline, as well as on Henri Lefebvre’s spatial theories. The article argues that Comenius can be viewed as a significant contributor to the early modern shift towards new administrative techniques for school governance, transmitting the mode of disciplinary power into pedogogised and didactic forms. The article contributes to achieving more systematic knowledge for understanding the focused areas of schooling, the concept of discipline and the pedagogic premises of disciplinary practice in an early-modern European educational context.

Keywords:	Comenius moral and pious education school governance discipline