ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ideological nature of the instructional texts used in the suggested lessons; the representations of war, pain, and suffering in the texts; and the effects they entail for the pedagogic subjects. The agenda of Rethinking Schools concerns the "war against terrorism" is illustrated in the extract from an editorial addressing American teachers. The chapter explores representations of pain in the pedagogic discourses of NewsHour Extra and Rethinking Schools, by combining Elaine Scarry's work with a critical discourse analytic perspective. The data analyzed from the NewsHour Extra portal come mainly from thematic area entitled "The Rights of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay" and consist of a detailed five-page lesson plan for teachers. NewsHour Extra emphasizes the importance of out-winning the opponent through contest vocabulary, in which naming is important. The pedagogy employed by NewsHour Extra obtains its meanings by the foregrounding of war as contest.
