Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ440211
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0272
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Grey Areas and Open Minds: Critical Language Awareness for Student Teachers.
Mehl, Deborah; Pendlebury, Shirley
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v23 n5 p435-48 Sep-Oct 1991
Describes a Critical Language Awareness course developed in South Africa to open the minds of prospective teachers. Discusses how language may coerce people into accepting as given practices that can be changed. Emphasizes the relationship between language and power and the role of textbooks and official language in reinforcing the status quo of apartheid. (DK)
Descriptors: Apartheid, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Role, Political Attitudes, Political Power, Power Structure, Racial Segregation, Social Attitudes, Social Change, Social Reinforcement, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Role, Textbooks
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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