Education offers the greatest potential for reshaping prejudiced discourse
Evidence
The bad news is that this is also true for lessons about Them - immigrants, refugees, minorities, and peoples in the Third World - and that such discourses are often very stereotypical and sometimes plainly prejudiced. The good news is that there is no domain or institution in society where alternative discourses have more possibilities to develop than in education. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1104
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: schools as the one institutional lever where counter-racist discourse can actually take root in a society that otherwise reproduces bias everywhere else.
- XREF: connects to: Schooling is the most massively inculcated of all cultural discourses after media — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1103