Discourse and Power in Educational Organizations

by Corson

In today's post-modern and post-traditional institutions, power is mainly exercised through the generation of consent, through the distribution of ideologies and through the subtle indoctrination of self-disciplining practices, rather than through the use of force or brute authority. This change in the nature of institutional practices focuses the role that language has always had in the exercise of power. To address the topic as it affects educational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881303977
• ISBN13: 9781881303978
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
• Length: 336 Pages