ERIC Number: EJ955261
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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Mapping the Future, Mapping Education: An Analysis of the 2011 State of the Union Address
Collin, Ross
Journal of Education Policy, v27 n2 p155-172 2012
This article presents a discourse analysis of President Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address. Fredric Jameson's concepts of cognitive mapping, cultural revolution, and the unconscious are employed to examine the president's vision of educational and economic transformation. Ultimately, it is argued this vision evokes a world in which individual citizens direct their deepest aspirations into channels of capitalist development. Prominent among these channels are reconfigured structures of education. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Mapping, Presidents, Change Strategies, Economic Change, Educational Change, Economic Development, Economic Status, Position Papers, Politics of Education, Case Studies, Speeches, Rhetorical Criticism, Federal Government, Educational Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Adult Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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