Tickets to the Opera: A Negotiation of Western Knowledge—Beyond Resistance or Reproduction.
What are the prices of “must knowledges?” Does the study of English impose Anglocentric control on its learners or can English as an icon for “must knowledge” enable disempowered populations to empower themselves? This article examines these questions through an ethnographic study of middle-/lower-c...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 189 - 212 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2004
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