Capitalist Realism as Rhetoric: r/teachers as an Online Case Study
Start Date
16-3-2024 4:30 PM
End Date
16-3-2024 5:15 PM
Description
Educators in 2023 face a number of challenges from under-prepared students to draconian legislative attempts to censor classroom materials, and many believe that their students are ill prepared for life after K-12. This in a year where liberal politicians have been prevented from fulfilling promises of student loan forgiveness. This paper examines rhetorical norms on the teaching subreddit to examine how teachers’ rhetoric when discussing these issues adopts a hyper individualistic bent that is incapable of considering how poor student performance and attitudes are shaped by a post-pandemic American capitalism.
Capitalist Realism as Rhetoric: r/teachers as an Online Case Study
Educators in 2023 face a number of challenges from under-prepared students to draconian legislative attempts to censor classroom materials, and many believe that their students are ill prepared for life after K-12. This in a year where liberal politicians have been prevented from fulfilling promises of student loan forgiveness. This paper examines rhetorical norms on the teaching subreddit to examine how teachers’ rhetoric when discussing these issues adopts a hyper individualistic bent that is incapable of considering how poor student performance and attitudes are shaped by a post-pandemic American capitalism.