Early in his period of office as Prime Minister, Tony Blair stated that there were three priorities in his agenda for government: education, education and education. About a year later, when asked if his priorities had changed, he added a fourth – education. ‘Education, education, education’ has perhaps given way more recently to the new piety towards ‘learning’: New Labour, a new year in office, a new concept. But what’s in a concept? What is a concept? Concepts seem to have a double life: first, with their referential function; second, with their rhetorical force, their obligatory presence in a politician’s speech.
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Standish, P. (2008). The Education Concept. In: Smeyers, P., Depaepe, M. (eds) Educational Research: the Educationalization of Social Problems. Educational Research, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9724-9_15
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