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In our information societies, where we can have immediate access to all kinds of facts and figures almost everywhere, teachers' class-room management abilities are getting more and more into focus for teacher education and educational research. Schools' legitimation as institutions can no longer be explained by the distribution of knowledge but by the way knowledge is distributed. How teachers organize life in their classrooms depends on their own personality, their students, their education, the school system they are working in, the school they are working at, the country's culture, the Zeitgeist, etc. What exactly influences class-room management? How does it differ between countries, cultures and eras? These questions summarize my main research interest.

Starting from the assumption that schools are disciplinary institutions, I extracted a system of terms from Michel Foucaults book Discipline and Punish – The Birth of the Prison for studying class-room management strategies in different surroundings. The aim of this paper is to present this system of terms as a tool for describing and analysing teachers' classroom management work by showing its functionality. The analytical tool has been constructed by using the terms which can be found in the chapter named Discipline Foucault here describes the rise of the disciplinary society and the prison as its universal form of punishment. The Foucaultian discipline consists of small, innocent mechanisms and techniques of controlling, forming and affecting time, room, and body. The basic mechanisms I am going to use for analysing teachers' classroom management are those which Foucault calls 'The Art of Distributions' and 'The Control of Activity'.

The tool has originally been constructed for the use in a thesis about different classroom management and discipline strategies and aims in schools in Sweden and Bavaria (Germany). Lacking processed empirical data, I want to present the usage of Foucaults terms by using three different Swedish films and tv-series about school from three different decades at ECER 2011 in Berlin. Instead of comparing two different countries I do compare three different époques, so to say. All three film documents, Hets (1944), Lära för livet (1977), and Klass 9A (2009), led to heated public debates the time they were released.

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