EDUC106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Economic Rationalism, Washington Consensus, Australian Tertiary Admission Rank

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* the nature of truth, a foucauldian framework. * australias settler colonial context of the australian education system and curriculum: a postcolonial perspective. * truth is not something that exists in absolute terms and independent of us. * variety of truths which are constructed within definite contexts of social relations as the product of legitimated knowledge. * people engage with each other to produce meanings and in that process, come to understand shared meanings as knowledge. * within this process of producing and legitimating knowledge, power arises. * relationships that we construct and strategies/tactics that we undertake to produce and legitimate knowledge is discourse. * understand discourse-understand the truth about power in any situations. * truth is manifested as a regime where society through institutions produce and legitimate their own regime of truth. * truth is manifested through types of discourses which society accepts and makes it function as if it is true.

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