Scary Words # 1: “Depersonalized Goal-Rationality”

(Article: Arminen, I. (2005). Classrooms and the transmission of knowledge and expertise (pp. 112-134). In I. Arminen (Ed.) Institutional interaction: Studies of talk at work. Ashgate Publishing.) (p. 112)


"I will then show that the significance of classroom interaction lies in the way it helps establish a depersonalized goal-rationality, which ultimately allows the emergence of a self-disciplined epistemic relationship to the external world." (p. 112)