• The Politics of Recitation: Ideology, Interpellation, and Hegemony

    Author(s):
    David Backer (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Education, Marxian school of sociology, Teaching, Politics and government
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Marxist sociology, Pedagogy, Politics
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M61R5X
    Abstract:
    In this article, David I. Backer introduces the politics of recitation as a third realm for research on recitation pedagogy, in addition to process and product. Recitation is the pattern of classroom talk where a teacher asks a question, a student responds to the question, and the teacher evaluates the response. Research on classroom talk shows that this pattern is the dominant script in classrooms in the United States. Revisiting debates among critical theorists of schooling, particularly around the concept of hegemony, Backer argues that the politics of recitation is best understood in terms of interpellation, the concrete occurrence of ideological reproduction. He also maintains that recitation does not interpellate students into a particular category but instead teaches students to become interpellatable to any social category, independent of historical context. The article opens new possibilities for research into the connection between recitation and ideology and describes what liberatory pedagogy can look like.
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