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Direct linkAckland, Aileen – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2014
This article demonstrates that the presence of radical discourse in an educational field is not necessarily evidence of criticality in practice. Appropriated by policy and practitioners within a web of power relations, radical discourse may come to act on practice in ways which are antithetical to its theoretical origins. To illustrate this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Social Theories, Adult Literacy
