Social control in Foucault: reading and discussion in the classroom from the participative methodology and reflective practice

This article summarizes the main points related to the continuous evaluation activity developed in the subject Penal Law, compulsory in the ungraduated course Law and Criminology, University of Valencia. The proposal is based on the supervised reading of the book Survey and Punish, written by Michel Foucault, and also in the adaptation of his thesis to the digital revolution context by the Corian philosopher Byung Chul-Han in the book The Transparency Society. According to the proposed readings, classroom sessions were organized, following participatory methodologies, with the purpose of discussing the main ideas of these authors, related to social control institutions in the penitentiary law. The idea was looking into cross features of the subject, following a reflective practice process in the classroom, giving to the students a critical approach to social control study, necessary to its development as legal experts and criminologists.