%0 Journal Article %T Notas sobre la escritura escolar como efecto de verdad sobre el sujeto o como gesto en la relaci¨®n con el saber %A Cartolari %A Manuela %A Zambrano %A Jusmeidy %J Revista Electr¨®nica Educare %D 2013 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper discusses ethical and philosophical assumptions on how the writings of students are seen in the education context, in terms of subjectivity and knowledge. foucault¡¯s concept of power is associated to writing as a ¡°truth-effect¡± on the subject and to the reified concept of the subject¡¯s writing, understood this as a mirror surface of thought. this stands in contrast to the spacing between the self and the sign implied in writing; spacing where subjectivity emerges, according to derrida, in the sense produced by the difference. the conclusion suggests seeing writing as a gesture along the lines proposed by agamben, because by overcoming the means-ends logic, the gesture becomes evident in the writing as a communication of communicability and of the pure power of thinking, i.e. an event. if, when writing, students are called to produce sense not only on a ¡°specific¡± area of knowledge, but about their own selves within language as historical and desiring subjects, writing is assumed as a gesture toward knowledge, emerging therefore the ethical-political dimension on how we understand, evaluate and respond to students¡¯ writings. %K subjectivity %K writing %K knowledge %K educare electronic journal %K costa rica.. %U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1409-42582013000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en