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Brass, Jory – Educational Theory, 2010
In this historical study of English teaching, Jory Brass adopts a governmentality perspective to highlight the contingency and limits of pedagogical arguments that construct an oppositional relation between power and freedom. In the first part of the essay, Brass historicizes contemporary critiques of transmission pedagogies by comparing them with…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns, Power Structure, Freedom