The moraliturgical device in a Brazilian public school

Abstract

The articulation observed between various elements (sounds, things, words, actions) in a public school located in the south of Brazil was what we have seen operating in games of knowledge/power as a curriculum. This mesh is composed of meticulous, exegetical, and heterogeneous techniques that, with Christian moral values, fabricates and gives visibility to a certain mode of existence, that is, a Christian school subjectivity engineered by pedagogical-liturgical procedure. With the concept of Foucault’s device, we tried to rehearse a creative philosophical exercise, producing a new concept, the moraliturgical device, as an analytical tool. The moral and liturgical movement of the pedagogy of this device calls on individuals, in an ascetic attitude, to examine and correct themselves.