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Book SynopsisThe Power In/Of Language features a collection of essays that analyse the ways in which language is utilized in contemporary education revealing its deeply entrenched power relationships.
- Features essays grounded in theoretical rigor that offer critical insights into contemporary educational practice
- Provides educators with fresh new perspectives on language in education
- Based on the latest research data
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Foreword ix
Introduction x
David R. Cole and Linda J. Graham
1 The Actions of Affect in Deleuze: Others using language and the language that we make ...
David R. Cole 1
2 Manufacturing Consent: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of New Labour’s educational governance
Jane Mulderrig 13
3 ‘Relative Ignorance’: Lingua and linguaggio in Gramsci’s concept of a formative aesthetic as a concern for power
John Baldacchino 29
4 Beyond Discourse? Using Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis to explore affective assemblages, heterosexually striated space and lines of flight online and at school
Jessica Ringrose 48
5 Will They Ever Speak with Authority? Race, post-coloniality and the symbolic violence of language
Awad Ibrahim 68
6 Romantic Agrarianism and Movement Education in the United States: Examining the discursive politics of learning disability science
Scot Danforth 85
7 Lost in Translation: The power of language
Sandy Farquhar & Peter Fitzsimons 101
8 The Product of Text and ‘Other’ Statements: Discourse analysis and the critical use of Foucault
Linda J. Graham 112
9 After the Glow: Race ambivalence and other educational prognoses
Zeus Leonardo 124
Index 148
