The 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 practiceProvides educators with fresh new perspectives on language in educationBased on the latest research data
David R. Cole is Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney. His most recent book is Educational Life-forms: Deleuzian Teaching and Learning Practice.Linda J. Graham is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her most recent book is (De)Constructing ADHD: Critical Guidance for Teachers and Teacher Educators.
Notes on Contributors vii Foreword ixIntroduction xDavid R. Cole and Linda J. Graham1 The Actions of Affect in Deleuze: Others using language and the language that we make ...David R. Cole 12 Manufacturing Consent: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of New Labour’s educational governanceJane Mulderrig 133 ‘Relative Ignorance’: Lingua and linguaggio in Gramsci’s concept of a formative aesthetic as a concern for powerJohn Baldacchino 294 Beyond Discourse? Using Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis to explore affective assemblages, heterosexually striated space and lines of flight online and at schoolJessica Ringrose 485 Will They Ever Speak with Authority? Race, post-coloniality and the symbolic violence of languageAwad Ibrahim 686 Romantic Agrarianism and Movement Education in the United States: Examining the discursive politics of learning disability scienceScot Danforth 857 Lost in Translation: The power of languageSandy Farquhar & Peter Fitzsimons 1018 The Product of Text and ‘Other’ Statements: Discourse analysis and the critical use of FoucaultLinda J. Graham 1129 After the Glow: Race ambivalence and other educational prognosesZeus Leonardo 124Index 148