Education policy slogans can mask reactionary practice behind rhetorical progressivism

Evidence

Gramsci’s object in his writing on education was in part to expose the rhetorical character of these slogans, and to show the practice which lay behind them. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 321

Categorization

• XREF: This is an early instance of Gramsci’s general method of stripping rhetorical idealist language to expose material practice, which carries forward into his hegemony analysis and into later Islamophobia discourse critiques. — connects to: Rhetorical theory undermines the autonomy of academic disciplines — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 530; Discourse produces knowledge that shapes perceptions and enacts power — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 687; The rhetoric of difference may fail to articulate concrete social struggles — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 737 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Rhetorical theory undermines the autonomy of academic disciplines — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 530; Discourse produces knowledge that shapes perceptions and enacts power — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 687; The rhetoric of difference may fail to articulate concrete social struggles — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 737 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Sloganeering reaction to complexity tends to confirm existing prejudices #complicates (0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2182