TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL EVENTS: A LOOK AT TWO DOCUMENTS OF COLOMBIAN EDUCATIONAL POLICY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Based on a work proposal found in Fairclough (2003) for the textual analysis in social investigation, this study deals with the analysis of two decrees issued by the Colombian National Ministry of Education during the stage of contextualization of a critical ethnographic study on the subjective experiences of the autonomy of the teaching and learning processes of a group of Colombian college students, professors and administrators. The study also looks both at the lexical choices in the representation of the actors and the social processes included in the decrees and at the level of abstraction or specification of such choices. Some of the findings show the absence of the professor (exclusion from the discourse by suppression) as well as the ratification of the student as an object, not as a subject of the educational action (prevalence of nominalization).