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Abstract

This article is on education and emancipation in working-class culture, examining the use of illustrative language (particularly working-class dialect), as a tool to generate higher (or at least wider) educational exchange. Taking the form of a play script, or as an imagined sequel to Willy Russell’s play ([1980] 1991), this article utilizes the easily digestible format of conversation to explore and illustrate Mikhail Bahktin’s complex ideas on dialogism, and the ideological pedagogical position of Jacques Rancière’s novel ([1989] 1999). We see Rita become academically educated, and as the narrative develops, the idea of what is meant when we say the word ‘culture’ is constantly challenged. Through exploring social culture in working-class communities, this narrative examines how a ‘lack’ of academic awareness has the potential to lead to a social state of intellectual undress: one that disarms and excites information exchange.

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Keyword(s): dialect; dialogue; inclusivity; language; learning; pedagogy; social class; teaching

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