Language and Power in the Secondary English Classroom*

‘… a political, objective, knowledgeable campaign from the far Right was capable of creating not only a terror but a new subjective reality, a veritable mystique which was gradually assuming even a holy resonance.’ Arthur Miller 1958 'For a mass of the people to be led to think coherently about the real, present world … is not a question of introducing from scratch a scientific form of thought into everyone's individual life, but of renovating and making “critical an already existing activity.” Antonio Gramsci 1974