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Resistance to the KnownEnglish-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory English Education in Japan

Resistance to the Known: English-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory... [This chapter draws attention to some of the ways in which those involved in compulsory English education in Japan tend to be harnessed into a certain type of ideological machinery that frames their debates and shapes their notions of objectivity. Among other components, this machinery consists of the discourses of English-as-panacea and Japanese uniqueness, institutionalized standards of professional practice, and applied linguistics theory which views the acquisition of English principally as a matter of motivation and technique rather than arising from need. These disparate elements form a heterogeneous ideological orthodoxy, or ‘regime of truth’ (Foucault, 1980) which, in line with the theme of the present volume, I shall refer to as ‘the known’.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Resistance to the KnownEnglish-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory English Education in Japan

Editors: Rivers, Damian J.
Resistance to the Known — Nov 7, 2015

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-46635-1
Pages
216–234
DOI
10.1057/9781137345196_10
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter draws attention to some of the ways in which those involved in compulsory English education in Japan tend to be harnessed into a certain type of ideological machinery that frames their debates and shapes their notions of objectivity. Among other components, this machinery consists of the discourses of English-as-panacea and Japanese uniqueness, institutionalized standards of professional practice, and applied linguistics theory which views the acquisition of English principally as a matter of motivation and technique rather than arising from need. These disparate elements form a heterogeneous ideological orthodoxy, or ‘regime of truth’ (Foucault, 1980) which, in line with the theme of the present volume, I shall refer to as ‘the known’.]

Published: Nov 7, 2015

Keywords: Language Policy; Language Learning; Liberal Democratic Party; English Education; English Language Teaching

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