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Gerrard, Jessica – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Contemporary politics has brought the figure of the 'uneducated' into glaring view, from Trump's 'love' of the 'poorly educated' to analyses suggesting a supposed 'uneducated populous' is responsible for the rise of far-right politics. In this paper I respond to this so-called 'post-truth' contemporary moment by considering how education underpins…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Ethics, Deception, Educational Attainment
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This article investigates different kinds of learner subjects that study-abroad programs produce. It is based on discourse analysis and ethnographic fieldwork in May-September 2011, involving three students from a US college studying abroad short term in Europe. The discourse of immersion in study abroad valorizes a learning-by-doing, individual,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Discourse Analysis, Experiential Learning, Critical Theory