Teachers’ politicity as a sociohistorical juncture: bringing a Freirean angle to education policy studies
- United Kingdom Taylor & Francis 2024
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- Globalisation,Societies and Eduacation 22(1) .
This paper engages with the Freirean concept of politicity for critical policy studies in education. The first part lays the ground to expand the conceptualisation of teachers’ politicity. I argue this entails an examination of the limits and possibilities within a juncture. To develop the argument, the second part focuses on a teacher strike that took place in Chile and draws on corpus-driven discourse analysis to explore news from a national teacher organisation and from an influential newspaper. Through the angle of politicity, I identify and discuss ideational projects during the strike with an emphasis on counterhegemonic resources for change.