Boarded subjectivity. Bodily experiences of students, graduates, and teachers in a female rural boarding school

Abstract

This article presents the preliminary results of the first phase of a research project that has been examining the effects on subjectivity caused by school boarding in a group of students, graduates, and teachers. Methodologically, the research was designed as a qualitative study that, from a hermeneutic approach, employs discourse analysis to explore the forms of subjectivation generated by school boarding in a group of students and teachers. In this first phase of the research, the speech acts were addressed, revealing the reality of what is happening in this educational context. Using the grounded theory methodology, a questionnaire was conducted with three focus groups (ten students, five graduates, and four teachers), which allowed for the generation of codes that account for what is happening in the boarding setting. In this regard, the research highlighted the excesses of social control based on a series of disciplinary and totalizing practices directed at students and teachers, while also recognizing the forms of agency these groups exhibit within the context of boarding.