El lugar del Otro en el discurso educativo reformista del Estado español contemporáneo
ISSN: 1576-7418
Year of publication: 2004
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Pages: 231-256
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios de sociolingüística: Linguas, sociedades e culturas
Abstract
This work presents a critical exploration of some of the ways in which the most marginal of multicultural students of Spain have come to be represented through the current educational reform, or LOCE. The essay thus has three major aims: to identify the legitimating ideology behind this policy; to reveal the presence of other less evident and countervailing ideologies in both the discourse and the broader social and historical context of this law; and finally, to suggest some strategies for democratizing, from the school base, the production of official narratives on education, in an attempt to decenter their most biased of tenets..