Novos recursos e velhos impasses

Abstract

The present article aims to approach two recurrent questions about Teaching, which are, on one side, the unsatisfactory rates of writing learning and, on the other side, the correlation between Distance Learning and Learning quality; aiming to point similarities between these discussion scenarios, as long as to indicate underlying elements to them. Amongst the theoretical references, the relevance of Benveniste and Marcuschi is highlighted for the first theme; the contributions of Foucault, on the other hand, through the ways of discursive events and the disciplinary society, give possible interpretations for elements that tend to remain silenced on such discussions. It is inferred that, under explicit acting and argumentation, governance tactics of the disciplinary society, to which the learning system is part of, might be quietly put to work.