Whole language is Issue Rich, analyses issues, locates kids in their material world. Whole language RE -skills school workers. But Whole Language has not carried its power as a critical theory far enough. Ideas are socially constructed . All knowledge is political, not neutral.
Education is political is political and partisan.
Schools are vast markets, warehouses for kids, and recreate unequal social conditions. Knowledge is stamped with the brand of class, race, and sex. Formal education systems are designed to reproduce class relationships and create people who are instruments of their own oppression. Yet there is always room to struggle for what is true, to gain and test knowledge. All teaching presupposes a view of the past, an analysis of the present, a vision of the future.