{"id":27030,"date":"2025-04-24T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=27030"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:50:18","slug":"knowledge-power-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/knowledge-power-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge, power and education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Knowledge, power and education<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27145\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27145\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/puppets-113056_1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/puppets-113056_1280-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/puppets-113056_1280-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/puppets-113056_1280-1-768x619.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/puppets-113056_1280-1-410x330.jpg 410w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/puppets-113056_1280-1-223x180.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zden\u011bk Chalupsk\u00fd. \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16875\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Josep-Oton_150-149x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josep Oton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knowledge and power<\/strong> maintain an ambivalent relationship. Frequently, the exercise of power relies on the ignorance of those subjected to it. Denying access to knowledge becomes an effective strategy for those who seek to dominate their fellow human beings. In this light, knowledge is revealed as a vital instrument in the process of human emancipation, enabling the reversal of oppressive conditions. Enlightenment thought advanced this thesis, portraying obscurantism, fraud, superstition, and deception as the allies of power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michel Foucault<\/strong>, however, questioned the supposed neutrality of truth, arguing that it is shaped by the logic of the powerful. For him, it is \u201ca myth that <strong>Nietzsche<\/strong> began to dismantle by showing that behind all knowledge lies a <strong>struggle for power<\/strong>. Political power is not absent from knowledge; on the contrary, it is interwoven with it\u201d.[1]<\/p>\n<p>Foucault followed in the iconoclastic footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche, who had already called into question the objectivity of knowledge: <strong>\u201cWhat then is truth?<\/strong> A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms; in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long use, appear to a people as fixed, canonical, and binding: truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are such\u201d.[2]<\/p>\n<p>For these thinkers, <strong>power and knowledge are inextricably linked<\/strong>. There is no relation of power without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, likewise, there is no knowledge that does not presuppose\u2014and simultaneously constitute\u2014relations of power. In Foucault\u2019s words: \u201cThe exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge, and conversely, knowledge produces effects of power\u201d.[3]<\/p>\n<p>Thus, from this perspective, those who exercise power impose their own knowledge\u2014knowledge that, in turn, legitimises their authority. The cycle is closed, and the mutual reinforcement between power and knowledge is sustained. They are inseparable. There are no power relations that do not make use of knowledge, and no knowledge that stands apart from the struggle for power. As such, there can be no knowledge independent of the subject who knows, nor any knowing subject detached from relations of power.<\/p>\n<p>Foucault explored this entanglement in what he described as social laboratories: <strong>the prison and the asylum<\/strong>\u2014privileged spaces for the analysis of power\u2019s mechanisms, precisely because power operates there in its most visible and unmasked form.<\/p>\n<p>From sociology, these insights were subsequently <strong>extended to the field of education<\/strong>. Foucault himself warned: \u201cEvery educational system is a political means of maintaining or modifying the alignment between discourses, knowledge, and the powers they imply\u201d.[4]<\/p>\n<p>The diagnosis is clear. The school reflects the conflicts between social groups in a society as complex as ours. Children deemed \u201cnormal\u201d\u2014that is, those who adapt to the norms imposed by dominant power structures\u2014are predisposed to succeed in the education system. In contrast, those who fail to conform to the official forms of knowledge\u2014because they fall outside the accepted frameworks\u2014are the most likely to experience academic failure and early school leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The education system, which ought to guarantee universal access to knowledge, remains a <strong>political battleground<\/strong>. Power seeks to dominate it. The struggle for knowledge is, in effect, a struggle for power\u2014hence the persistent and intense contest over education.<\/p>\n<p>From a superficially critical perspective, knowledge is often denounced as a product of power, a mechanism of domination. Consequently, each student is expected to construct their own knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>However, this subversive stance, which casts suspicion on the very idea of knowledge, ultimately fosters the <strong>proliferation of false truths<\/strong> and thereby deepens ignorance and manipulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simone Weil<\/strong>, who witnessed the perversions of Nazi propaganda long before the rise of the internet, maintained that \u201cprotection against suggestion and error\u201d is one of humanity\u2019s fundamental needs. She condemned the press and radio of her time for spreading \u201cnot only false statements, but also deliberate and tendentious omissions\u201d. The consequence, then as now, is that \u201cthe public distrusts newspapers, but that distrust offers no protection. Knowing that the press contains both truths and falsehoods, people divide the information between the two categories at random, according to their preferences. In this way, they remain vulnerable to error\u201d.[5] Her words apply all too well to today\u2019s <strong>social media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Weil\u2019s reflections often align with those of <strong>Hannah Arendt<\/strong>. In her writings on lying as a political strategy, Arendt argues that the goal of constant lying is not to persuade people to believe in falsehoods, but rather to ensure that they cease to believe in anything at all.[6]<\/p>\n<p>The current educational context raises troubling questions. Could the obstruction of knowledge transmission be a <strong>refined strategy of power<\/strong>, aimed at denying large segments of society access to learning so they may be more easily subdued? Are today\u2019s pedagogical theories merely plausible opinions that have been elevated to the status of orthodoxy? To paraphrase Foucault: are so many \u201c<strong>individualised learning programmes<\/strong>\u201d simply mechanisms of power designed to bind individuals to identities assigned for the benefit of authority?<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Michel Foucault, <em>La verdad y las formas jur\u00eddicas<\/em>, Gedisa Publishers, Barcelona 1988, p. 59<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn2\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Friedrich Nietzsche, <em>Sobre verdad y mentira en sentido extramoral, <\/em>Cap. I<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn3\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> Michel Foucault, <em>Microf\u00edsica del poder<\/em>, La Piqueta Publishers, Madrid 1980, p.99<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn4\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> Michel Foucault, <em>Vigilar y castigar<\/em>, Siglo XXI Publishers, M\u00e9xico 2008, p. 37<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn5\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> Simone Weil, <em>Echar ra\u00edces<\/em>, Trotta Publishers, Madrid 1996, pp.48-50<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn6\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> Hanna Arendt, <em>La mentira en la pol\u00edtica<\/em>, Alianza editorial, Madrid 2022, p. 67<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge and power maintain an ambivalent relationship. Frequently, the exercise of power relies on the ignorance of those subjected to it. 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