This chapter draws on different examples from the author’s experience as educator to problematize the power differentials and power struggles between educators and youth, and the often-seamless veering of educator authority into authoritarianism. The chapter especially delves on the thorny issue of physical restraints, and its alleged justification in “care.”

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Between Authority and Authoritarianism: From Everyday Power Struggles to Physical Restraints

  • Matías Cordero Arce

摘要

This chapter draws on different examples from the author’s experience as educator to problematize the power differentials and power struggles between educators and youth, and the often-seamless veering of educator authority into authoritarianism. The chapter especially delves on the thorny issue of physical restraints, and its alleged justification in “care.”