Discourse in educational and social research / Maggie MacLure.
By: MacLure, Margaret [author]
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BookSeries: Conducting educational research.Publisher: Buckingham : Open University, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0335201911 (hardback); 0335201903 (paperback) .Subject(s): Education -- Research -- Methodology | Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology | Discourse analysisDDC classification: 370.72 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This volume aims to be both practical and provocative. It demonstrates the insights and irritations of a discourse-based orientation to educational research. Drawing on a wide range of educational "texts" - including policy documents, ethnographic interviews, press articles, video-taped lessons, textbooks, informal chat and parent-teacher consultations - the author shows how knowledge, power identities and realities are constructed and problematized in discourse. The book also deals with educational research itself as a set of discursive practices, examining the texts which educational researchers produce and consume: research, reports, dissertations, and journal articles. The book provides practical help to researchers and students wishing to "interrogate" their own data from a discourse perspective, and at the same time develops a critical awareness of the researcher's role as writer/reader of research texts. This book draws on discourse-focused traditions, including conversation analysis, poststructuralism, interaction sociology, feminist ethnography, literary theory and philosophy. What holds it together is the persistent question: how to do educational research within a "crisis of representation" that has shaken faith in a stable relationship between words and worlds?
Includes bibliographical references (pages: 213-225) and index.
Introducing discourse and educational research -- The discourse of disgust: press engagements in the 'war' over standard English -- Interrogating the discourse of home-school relations: the case of 'parents' evenings' (with Barbara Walker) -- Taking a text apart: a discourse analysis of a polemical article -- The fabrication of research -- The threat of writing -- Fabricating the self: metaphors of method in life-history interviews -- The repulsion of theory: women writing research -- The sudden laugh from nowhere: mimesis and illusion in art and research -- Conclusion: deconstruction and educational research.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. x)
- 1 Introducing discourse and educational research (p. 1)
- 2 The discourse of disgust: press engagements in the 'war' over standard English (p. 22)
- 3 Interrogating the discourse of home-school relations: the case of 'parents' evenings' (with Barbara Walker) (p. 48)
- 4 Taking a text apart: a discourse analysis of a polemical article (p. 69)
- 5 The fabrication of research (p. 80)
- 6 The threat of writing (p. 105)
- 7 Fabricating the self: metaphors of method in life-history interviews (p. 119)
- 8 The repulsion of theory: women writing research (p. 133)
- 9 The sudden laugh from nowhere: mimesis and illusion in art and research (p. 149)
- 10 Conclusion: deconstruction and educational research (p. 163)
- Appendices
- 1 Definitions of discourse: a sketchy overview (p. 174)
- 2 Standard English: chronology of policy events (p. 192)
- 3 Anatomy of a blaming sequence (p. 193)
- Notes (p. 195)
- References (p. 213)
- Index (p. 226)