Pedagogical systems and the construction of the primary school teacher in the teachers' training institution (Didaskalio) in Greece (1830-1933): Issues of power and governmentality

Abstract

This article investigates the governmentality in the pedagogical systems through theteachers' mission and the corresponding teachers' education in Greece from the construction of the nation/state and for about a century, according to the socio-economical conditions that emerged. It does so in order to analyse the relation of society, the educationalsystem and teachers' education. To this end, it decodes, through discourse analysis amongother means, the state's official texts, the pedagogy applied, the teachers' tasks and position in teaching, and the impact of the above on teachers' education. It discerns threereform periods of teachers' education in Greece from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and explores how teachers were prepared in the Didaskalio (teachers' educationinstitution) in each period. It concludes that power relations determine the constructionof the teacher's soul in order to construct the child's soul.