Discourse in educational and social research
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Discourse in educational and social research
(Conducting educational research / series editor, Harry Torrance)
Open University Press, 2003
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
WINNER: 2004 AESA Critics' Choice Award "With wonderful clarity Maggie MacLure shows how deconstructionism opens new avenues of critical inquiry and understanding for educational researchers. In exposing the hidden, ideological side of terms like clarity, certainty, mastery, and relevance she allows us to see schooling and educational policy in new ways. In so doing she allows us to imagine classrooms as liberating, pedagogical places, as places where new forms of desire, knowledge, and learning take place"
Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThis book is both practical and provocative. It demonstrates the insights and the challenges of a discourse-based orientation to educational and social research. Drawing on a variety of educational and social science 'texts' - including press articles, life history interviews, parent-teacher consultations, policy debates and ethnographies - the author shows how knowledge, power, identities and realities are constructed and problematised in discourse.The book also deals with research itself as discursive practice, examining the texts that qualitative researchers produce and consume: reports, monographs, journal articles. Practical examples are included for researchers and graduate students wishing to 'interrogate' their own data from a discourse perspective. The author develops a critical awareness of the researcher's role as writer/reader of texts.The book makes the case for 'discursive literacy' in research. While its primary allegiances are to poststructuralism and deconstruction, it draws from a wide range of disciplines, including interaction sociology, feminist ethnography, literary theory, critical discourse analysis and art history. What holds the book together is the persistent question: how to do educational research and social research within a 'crisis of representation' that has unsettled the relationship between words and worlds?
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements1. Introducing discourse and educational research
2.The discourse of disgust:press engagements in the 'war' over standard English
3.Interrogating the discourse of home-school relations: the case of 'parents' evenings' (with Barbara Walker)
4.Taking a text apart: a discourse analysis of a polemical article
5.The fabrication of research
6.The threat of writing
7.Fabricating the self:metaphors of method in life-history interviews
8.The repulsion of theory: women writing research
9.The sudden laugh from nowhere: mimesis and illusion in art and research
10.Conclusion:deconstruction and educational research
Appendices
1 Definitions of discourse: a sketchy overview
2 Standard English: chronology of policy events
3 Anatomy of a blaming sequence
Notes
References
Index
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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 constructedd and problematised 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. The book draws on discourse-focused traditions, including conversation analysis, posrtstructuralism, 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?
Table of Contents
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' - 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 Appendices: Definitions of discourse: a sketchy overview - Standard English: chronology of policy events - Anatomy of a blaming sequence.
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