This article aims at setting up a possible horizon of the diffusion of Michel Foucault's thought in the brazilian educational literature, by focusing on two major writing fronts: books and articles published in 15 journals from 1990 to 2010. In the latter case, the core of this research, we selected 132 articles that took the foucauldian thought as a work method and analyzed them according to: their frequency and chronology; the institutional affiliation of the authors, as well as the list of the most frequent ones; Foucault's most cited works; the most visited themes and theoretical topics; and finally the investigative types used in the arguments. The final thoughts of this article point to the need to envisage, beyond the diffusion, the multiple modes of appropriation of the ideas of the French thinker in the brazilian educational field and, thus, the diversity of effects produced by them.
Michel Foucault; educational literature; diffusion of ideas