The Moral Politics of Authoritarian Practice in a Post-Truth era
Abstract
This study examines the ideological reshaping of early childhood education standards, focusing on how the concept of family is constructed and governed within state social studies curricula. Critical discourse analysis within a case study methodology reveals how official knowledge is strategically reordered to serve emerging authoritarian nationalist agendas fused with neoliberal managerial logics. This process narrows discursive possibilities, enforcing a moral and social order that restricts pluralism and critical inquiry. The study highlights education’s role as a contested site where competing visions of identity, knowledge, and democracy are materially enacted and politically contested.
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