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The Rhetoric of a Reform: The Construction of "Public", "Management" and the "New" in Norwegian Education Reforms of the 1990s
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Trippestad, Tom Are – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
This article presents a critical rhetorical analysis of the governing and reform ideology of the Norwegian school system of the 1990s. It uses Karl Popper's "The Open Society and its Enemies" as a critical resource in the reading of the reforms, and discusses some of the consequences of the regime's models of leadership and public…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
The Rhetoric of ICT and the New Language of Learning: A Critical Analysis of the Use of ICT in the Curricular Field
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Haugsbakk, Geir; Nordkvelle, Yngve – European Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article focuses on how we perceive new technology and technological development within educational settings, and seeks to establish a critical link between the rhetoric of information and communications technology (ICT) and what Biesta called "the new language of learning". Within this "new language" the learner is a…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Criticism, Educational Technology, Information Technology
The Relevance of Rhetoric to the Study of Power in Communication and Communicative Adequacy
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Elstad, Eyvind – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
The central focus in this article is that how language is used can constitute the basis for power relations. In the first place, power functions through linguistic expressions in relationships of superiority and subordination (commands, reprimands etc.). Secondly, language acts can appear as representations of discourse, i.e. linguistic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric