A Jamesonian analysis of "flat world" imagery in education discourse

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ID2918903
AuthorsRoss Collins, Ross Collin (0000-0002-6017-2205, Virginia Commonwealth University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume37
Issue2
Pages298-309
Publication date2016-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2015.1016896
OpenAlexW1978100669
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

This article presents a discourse analysis of Kylene Beers’ presidential address to the 2009 conference of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE-USA). The address, titled “Sailing over the Edge: Navigating the Uncharted Waters of a World Gone Flat,” calls teachers to reject the standardized education of the industrial order and to harness the creativity at the heart of the “flat world” (i.e. global, knowledge-based capitalism). The discourse analysis focuses on the figure of the “flat world” – an increasingly common image in education research – and asks how the speech uses the figure of the “flat world” to reimagine the role of education under global capitalism. Mobilizing the ideas of Fredric Jameson, the Marxist literary critic, the article asks how the speech's story of education in the “flat world” offers “an imaginary resolution of a real contradiction” between industrial and knowledge-based capitalisms

Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Contradiction · Creativity · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Marxist philosophy · Media studies · Political science · Presidential system · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Literacy, Media, and Education · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology

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