Foucaultian’s perspective of the discourse in a math class: demographic density

Abstract

This article aims to present elements from a foucaultian perspective from the discourses in the analysis of a fragment of a Mathematics class whose question is about Demographic density. We will take some analysis tools that will be visited more or less frequently throughout the text: speech, knowledge, power and resistance. It was intended to seek the place of speech of the subjects, the knowledge built in the process of mathematical learning, the exercise of power and identify elements of resistance in the context of the classroom, where the activity was applied. It is concluded that school institution, place of production and circulation of discourses, evidences a way of thinking exerting a power that includes, excludes and controls knowledge.

Keywords: Speeches. Mathematical knowledge. Power. Resistance.