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Collin, Ross; Ferrare, Joseph J. – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
This article presents a discourse analysis of President Ronald Reagan's 1983 State of the Union Address. Focusing on questions of scale, the article considers how and with what effects Reagan reconstructs education as a local, state, national and global endeavour. It is argued that by situating education in a competitive global economy, Reagan…
Descriptors: Presidents, Speeches, Social Systems, Economic Progress
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Collin, Ross – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
Focusing on matters of power and difference, this article examines rhetorical theories of genre and James Gee's theory of Discourse. Although both theories offer productive ways of understanding literate practice, it is argued, they are limited in crucial respects. Genre theory offers few ways of understanding how and why some social actors have…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Theory, Individual Power, Power Structure, Literary Genres