All Middle Class Now? Evolving Representations of the Working Class in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of ELT Textbooks

摘要: UK-produced English language teaching textbooks aimed at the global market are core products in a multi-million-pound Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages (TE SOL) industry that includes and testing, teacher education, academic publishing, educational consultancy work quality assurance for ministries education globally. The growth this coincides largely with birth neoliberal era, dating more or less from late 1970s. This is period which has been characterized not only by deregulation financial markets, abolition trade barriers, imposition structural readjustment programmes on developing world countries, but also an ideology promotes celebrates individualism over class-based other collective identity inscriptions. Elsewhere our (Block, 2010; Gray, 2010a, 2010b, 2012), we have argued frequently reproduce legitimize ideology, chapter turn attention specifically representations working class. begins short discussion supposed demise class before moving what means highly complex live today. followed quantitative qualitative analysis set 1970s end first decade 21st century. reveals superficial treatment general progressive editing out characters issues relating life these textbooks. We conclude arguing writing learning materials can be seen as both failure educate students (by providing them very skewed view world) simultaneous betrayal learners, who denied recognition.