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Have You Got the App?



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Raquel Goulart Barreto

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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2022.06.001

Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Departing from this most recurrent question asked to teachers as “the” response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the present work aims at analyzing its relations with the intensive use of private platforms in public schools, especially in developing countries. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2006; 2010), it aims at grasping the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of so-called “learning objects”. Referring to Barreto (2021), it deals with the supposed universal character and validity of the mentioned objects, offered to all students as replacement of teaching and school work. The aim is to address the educational incorporation of information and communication technologies as the deepest sort of technological substitution, regarding teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards critical reading, in hybrid/remote teaching (“blended learning”). In short, instead of simply paraphrasing the objects involved, the way to social emancipation is (re)contextualizing them in the struggle for hegemony. In other words, there is no definite application as “the” answer, even when the students can equally access the target digital materials.

technologies, education, hegemony, critical reading, critical discourse analysis

Raquel Goulart Barreto. (2022). Have You Got the App? US-China Education Review B, Nov.-Dec. 2022, Vol. 12, No. 6, 191-194.