This study aims to analyze the socially constructed school identities and student subjectivities
through high school profile. According to Foucault’s governmentality, high school profile can be
defined the technology of the self as a confession practice. School profile includes information
about school type, characteristics of student population, parents, community, and educational
program. School profile constructs school identities and student subjectivities. School profile is
very important because it is required documents in the admission officer system for university
entrance. High schools confess themselves through school profile as a confess practice and
school profile is regarded as a ‘truth’ about school and students. To accomplish our aim, we
used quantitative and qualitative content analysis method about school profiles of 64 high
schools in Busan-city.
As a result of quantitative-qualitative analyzing profiles, there were differences of students’
characteristic by school types. School identities and student subjectivities were classified four
types: ‘Differentiation through the spontaneous exclusion; the school of uncommon relative
advantages and the best student of all-rounder’, ‘Attempt to pass the boundary; the school that
makes an effort to escape the General High School image and student that almost reaches to
top level’, ‘Moving forward a little bit in assigned identify; a dedicated and compassionate
school and student that make steady and persistent effort’, ‘Settle for the present; a realistic
school and student that is influenced by environment’. School profile was used as a means of
reconstructing identities and subjectivities given to school and students by strengthening the
horizontal stratification of high school.