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The Interplay Of Discourse, Place And Space In Pedagogic Relations, Pauline T. Jones
The Interplay Of Discourse, Place And Space In Pedagogic Relations, Pauline T. Jones
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Schooling, for many, remains a major site for successful apprenticeship into academically valued discourses. Such discourses require learners to manage shifts in language use from that which construes material, embodied contexts to that construing disembodied, virtual contexts (Hasan, 2001). Responsibility for mediating these shifts for young learners lies, for the most part, with teachers in their decisions concerning the framing and classification (Bernstein, 1990) of contexts. While linguistic analysis provides a rich picture of situated mediating practices, classification and framing are also relevant to relationships between and within pedagogic spaces and geographical locations - aspects of setting over which teachers …
The Multiple Discourses Of Science-Society Engagement, Judith Motion, S. R. Leitch
The Multiple Discourses Of Science-Society Engagement, Judith Motion, S. R. Leitch
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
A meta-analysis of the changing science –society discourses that played out in New Zealand after the lifting of a moratorium on applications for the release of genetically modified organisms is provided in this article. It highlights the tension between the scientific focus on knowledge and societal values, beliefs and emotions and the need for a democratized discursive space for societal engagement with science. A key contribution of the article is identification of the role of altruistic discourses in societal considerations of controversial scientific innovations.
C. Coffin, Historical Discourse: The Language Of Time, Cause And Evaluation, Honglin Chen
C. Coffin, Historical Discourse: The Language Of Time, Cause And Evaluation, Honglin Chen
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Published as part of the Discourse Studies series edited by Ken Hyland, Coffin's Historical Discourse provides a systematic, informative and insightful description of the nature of historical discourse, its function and role, and of its pedagogic potential in the context of secondary schools. The book draws on and expands the scholarship Coffin has developed over some ten years, which includes her work in the 'Write it Right' Project of the disadvantaged Schools Program (xiii), her PhD (Coffin 2000) and her later work on historical discourse (Coffin 2002; 2003; 2004). The book makes a significant contribution to understanding the value of …
Postdramatic Theatre & Australia: A 'New' Theatre Discourse, Margaret M. Hamilton
Postdramatic Theatre & Australia: A 'New' Theatre Discourse, Margaret M. Hamilton
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The penultimate year of the twentieth century marked the publication of two highly significant books contributing to the development of local and international theatre history and theory. In 1999 Currency Press, in association with RealTime, published Performing the unNameable, the first anthology of Australian performance texts to appear in Australia, and Verlag der Autoren published Hans-Thies Lehmann's landmark contribution to the understanding of 'new' forms of theatre, Postdramatisches Theater. The long-awaited English translation of Lehmann's book by Karen Jiirs-Munby, Post dramatic Theatre, appeared in early 2006. Prior to its availability to an Anglophone readership, Lehmann's monograph had emerged as a …