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Download full textBiesta, Gert J. J. – 2002
Over the past 2 decades, a shift has taken place in the language of education. The most prominent semantic marker of this shift is the increase in the use of the word learning and the subsequent decrease in the use of the word education. This short paper contends that the very language educators use to speak and write about education makes certain…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Jargon
