Journal article
School system as axiological medium: The state's primary macro-proposing context and its expanding moral role in Australia
Pragmatics and Society, Vol.1(1), pp.102-117
2010
Abstract
This paper analyses the Australian Values Education Program (VEP) within the framework of late-classical political economy. Using analytical methods from systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we demonstrate that the VEP is an unwitting restatement of the principles of ideology as developed by the likes of Destutt de Tracy and the Young Hegelians. We conclude that the sudden shock of globalisation and the post-national cultures this has entailed is in many ways similar to the shock of formal nationalism that emerged in the late-Seventeenth and early-Eighteenth centuries. The overall result of the VEP for the Australian school system is a massive procedural burden that is unlikely to produce the results at which the program is aimed. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Details
- Title
- School system as axiological medium: The state's primary macro-proposing context and its expanding moral role in Australia
- Authors
- Philip Graham (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyL Gunders (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Pragmatics and Society, Vol.1(1), pp.102-117
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Co.
- Date published
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.1075/ps.1.1.06gra
- ISSN
- 1878-9714
- Organisation Unit
- Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450344702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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