What is it about?
How our view of language that our student support websites and central help services are based on is one that sees language as being a concrete entity that can be removed from its contexts for analysis and teaching. We argue that language needs to be seen in context, and taught by experts, thus meaning the arguments that neoliberalism bases its approaches on here are false.
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Why is it important?
To help resist approaches in education that mean that support for students is created that may not be appropriate for them, and to resist the arguments used by neoliberalism.
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It is key because it shows how even a view of language can be used to underpin neoliberal arguments - but it is also key in how it shows how these can be resisted.
Dr Nick Pilcher
Edinburgh Napier University
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This page is a summary of: How a view of language underpins approaches to supporting higher education students that facilitate neo-liberalism, and how to resist this, Power and Education, November 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1757743818811801.
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