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“Songs and Homework”: The Rhetoric of Instruction on Israeli Radio
Author(s) -
Katriel Tamar,
Nesher Pearla
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1987.18.3.05x1132n
Subject(s) - voice , rhetoric , phone , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , media studies , psychology , linguistics , philosophy
A phone‐in program aired on Israeli national radio, which offers junior high school students help with their homework, is analyzed as voicing a critique of school discourse on the one hand and as embodying and reproducing the major failings of standard school pedagogy on the other. The analysis is used as a basis for a more radical, self‐critical consideration of the ways in which children's participation in educational exchanges can be manipulated and trivialized.