Knowledge, Identity, Pedagogy: Pedagogic Discourse and the Representational Environments of Education in Late Modernity
✍ Scribed by Gunther Kress; Carey Jewitt; Charalambos Tsatsarelis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 635 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-5898
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✦ Synopsis
This article examines changes in the representational communicational landscapes of the contemporary world and their profound effects on education in its institutional form. In particular the changes have effects in four areas: (1) in the agendas of public education; (2) in the shifting relations of the lifewords of child, school, and forms of the economy and in the changing relations of economy and forms of communications; (3) in a set of issues, concerned with the sites'' of education: where does or is education taking place?; and (4) lastly, generally, the new arrangements of media and modes of representation. All are likely to unsettle the relative stabilities of the structures in which pedagogic discourse'' function, and to threaten the processes wherein forms of social identity were imagined, and projected by the school.
The aim of this article is to examine and describe some of the changes in the representational and communicational landscapes of the contemporary period, and to consider their interrelation with possibilities for forms of education. In the course of this highly speculative analysis, we wish to make some comments, at a