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Citizenship and citizenship education: a critical discourse analysis of the Zimbabwe Presidential Commission Report:
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The authors argued that educational discourse, like other fields, is not neutral and that it has ideological functions of transmitting dominant cultures and serving certain sectional interest groups through policy documents, such as Islam, Islamophobia, and racism.Abstract:
Educational discourse, like other fields, is not neutral. Through policy documents it has ideological functions of transmitting dominant cultures and serving certain sectional interest groups. In Z...read more
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