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This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of 'discource'.- Discourse as 'talk-in-interaction', commonly espoused in studies of classroom discourse since the 1970s.- Discourse as 'ways of understanding and constituting the social world', the critical, post-structuralist view of discourse as a source of power.Several themes resonate across the four sections and the chapters within them:- Widening the scope of enquiry, combining approaches to discourse- Linking the study of discourse with ethnography- Dealing with the changing nature of contemporary patterns of communicationThis is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
List of contents
General Editor's Introduction / Nancy H. Hornberger.- Introduction to Volume 3: Discourse and Education / Marilyn Martin-Jones and Anne-Marie de Mejía.- Contributors .- Reviewers .- Section 1: Discourse in Education: Theory and Method.- Section 2: Educational Discourses, Situated Practices and Identities.- Section 3: Discourses about Language and Linguistic Diversity.- Section 4: Discourse and the Construction of Knowledge .- Subject Index .- Name Index .- Tables of Contents: Volumes 1-10.
About the author
Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hornberger's areas of specialization include language planning and policy; bilingualism, bilingual education and biliteracy; and the ethnography of communication.
Summary
This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of ‘discource’.
• Discourse as ‘talk-in-interaction’, commonly espoused in studies of classroom discourse since the 1970s.
• Discourse as ‘ways of understanding and constituting the social world’, the critical, post-structuralist view of discourse as a source of power.
Several themes resonate across the four sections and the chapters within them:
• Widening the scope of enquiry, combining approaches to discourse
• Linking the study of discourse with ethnography
• Dealing with the changing nature of contemporary patterns of communication
This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
