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Critical Analysis of Textbooks: Knowledge-Generating Logics and the Emerging Image of "Global Economic Contexts"
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Thoma, Michael – Critical Studies in Education, 2017
This paper presents an approach to the critical analysis of textbook knowledge, which, working from a discourse theory perspective (based on the work of Foucault), refers to the performative nature of language. The critical potential of the approach derives from an analysis of knowledge-generating logics, which produce particular images of reality…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Economics
Liquid Subjects: News Media and Public Political Pedagogy
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Piotrowski, Marcelina; Ruitenberg, Claudia – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between news media and political education within consumer society. We argue that political education today needs to be understood as part of consumerism and media culture, in which individuals selectively expose themselves to and scrutinize various media representations not only of…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Teaching Methods, Socialization, Political Attitudes
"Our Common World" Belongs to "Us": Constructions of Otherness in Education for Sustainable Development
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Ideland, Malin; Malmberg, Claes – Critical Studies in Education, 2014
The aim of this article is to analyse how good intentions in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) discursively construct and maintain differences between "Us" and "Them". The empirical material consists of textbooks about sustainable development used in Swedish schools. An analysis of how "Us" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Textbooks, Content Analysis
Cultivating the Socially Competent Body: Bodies and Risk in Swedish Programmes for Social Emotional Learning in Preschools and Schools
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Bartholdsson, Åsa; Gustafsson-Lundberg, Johanna; Hultin, Eva – Critical Studies in Education, 2014
Social emotional learning (SEL) is common in preschools and schools both in Europe and North America today. Programmes for socio-emotional training and the rise of what is labelled therapeutic education have dramatically increased during the first decade of the millennium. In this article, a manual-based programme used for SEL in a Swedish school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Development, Emotional Development, Preschool Education