MİCHEL FOUCAULT’DA EĞİTİMİN İŞLEVİ
FUNCTION OF EDUCATION AT MICHEL FOUCAULT

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of education is to enable people to form desired behaviors. Education, which is considered as the most important institution of the social structure, shapes the society by the government and aims for individuals to acquire the values that will shape the society. Foucault's discourses on education can be explained in three ways as technical political history of education systems, education in the form of moral orthopedics and education in the form of power, communication and power. According to Michel Foucault, it enables educational institutions to reproduce their education and training status by using disciplinary methods and applying supervision techniques to individuals. Supervision practices carried out in educational institutions realize the definitions of subject and knowledge, plan the relations of the society with the individual and the individual with the society, and organize the actions. Foucault aims to identify and define the power fields in the education system in the perspective of the power discourse it has deepened. In modern societies where the relationship between power and knowledge quickly becomes reality, it is important to determine to what extent administrative activities are affected by this process and relationship. The aim of this article is to examine the function of the education system in the perspective of Foucault's studies, its connection with the construction and functions of power, and to discuss the role of education in the surveillance, control and control activities of power. Education covers components in different dimensions and it is important to determine the history of education and power relations in order to analyze the activities of educational institutions. While examining the educational institution, Foucault accepts that the person who is equipped with more information than the other in a reality fiction, directs the other, and conveys the information he has acquired will not be bad. However, it draws attention to the need to avoid the negative reflections of arbitrariness and authority in the education and teaching process.

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