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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Pedagogic Discourse"”.
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The school mathematics textbook as an instantiation of the pedagogic discourse of school mathematics
… textbook contribute to the production of the pedagogic discourse of school mathematics. The dissertation undertakes an analysis of a chapter of a Std 5 mathematics textbook, and seeks through this analysis to demonstrate two things: firstly, the contribution of textual strategies specific to …
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The recontextualising of pedagogic discourse: a case study drawn from an inservice mathematics education project
… a systematic account of the recontextualising of pedagogic discourse across two contexts: mathematics INSET provision and school mathematics teaching. Drawing on the work of sociologists Basil Bernstein and Paul Dowling, an attempt is made to construct a theoretical model which is applied to …
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Pleasure and pedagogic discourse in school mathematics : a case study of a problem-centred pedagogic modality
… of specialised knowledge and the moral discourse within pedagogic practice. The internal mechanism that knots together knowledge and moral discourse is elaborated by way of an analysis of texts produced by the originators of a pedagogic modality they refer to as the "problem-centred …
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Pleasure and pedagogic discourse in school mathematics: a case study of a problem-centred pedagogic modality
… of specialised knowledge and the moral discourse within pedagogic practice. The internal mechanism that knots together knowledge and moral discourse is elaborated by way of an analysis of texts produced by the originators of a pedagogic modality they refer to as the "problem-centred …
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By which tools?: A critical comparative analysis of pedagogic discourse for the creative arts in formal and informal classrooms in a working class post-apartheid context
… draws its principles from popular education discourse. The purpose of this research study was to conduct a comparative analysis of the transmission of pedagogic discourse between the informal classroom (freespace) and the formal classroom; with a particular emphasis on the regulative …
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An analysis of the contestation over the pedagogic device in an applied design curriculum in post apartheid South Africa
This project investigates a contested pedagogic discourse operating in the field of fashion design education in the post-Apartheid South African higher education context. The investigation is realised through a case study analysis of the pedagogic practices and context of a registered private …
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Primary teachers' recontextualization of a curriculum innovation in Uganda
… of the 'problem solving approach', a pedagogic approach prescribed for teaching primary school science by Uganda's official curriculum. It describes how sixteen teachers, located in eight primary schools, interpret and enact the pedagogic prescriptions of the problem solving approach. …
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Teaching within a university: an in depth study of the every day use of technology
… influences. In this study Bernstein’s theory of pedagogic discourse and his categories of recognition and realisation, along with the concepts of classification and framing provided a detailed coding structure as a way of analysing the resulting interview data. Analysis of practical examples of …
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Knowledge and knower structures and recontextualising logics in an accounting curricular framework
… is rearranged and transformed to become pedagogic discourse. These findings, including the design of the framework, are illustrated using a case study of specialised accountancy knowledge. The study contributes to the field of accounting education in that the framework demonstrates the …
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An analysis of curriculum knowledge in an introductory actuarial science course
… and elements thereof in data. Basil Bernstein's Pedagogic Device is used in locating the course reader data in the field of recontextualisation, relying on recontextualising rules which 'regulate the formation of specific pedagogic discourse' (Bernstein, 2000, p.28) to examine the ways in which …
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The Reality of Study Support: A Phenomenographic and Activity Theory Analysis.
… move to debate the impact of power, identity and pedagogic discourse on the development of academic literacy signals a climate for change. Nevertheless, within this changing environment very little thinking has taken place about the variation in experience of tutors, support staff and students …
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Waiting to learn : an analysis of instruction in four preschool settings in poor contexts
… of educational transmission in the classroom (pedagogic discourse) have been useful in providing pointers towards better practices to support children's learning at school. Extending the study of pedagogy to the preschool level seems to hold great potential for better understanding how to …
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Lost in translation? – The “integration of theory and practice” as a central focus for senior schooling Physical Education Studies
… Accordingly, the study investigated the discourse(s) that formed PES in WA, before using this as a backdrop to examine the notion of integrated theory and practice in “enactment” (Ball, Maguire, Braun, Hoskins, & Perryman, 2012, p. 6). In particular, the study addressed the dynamic …
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Learning and teaching in higher education : policy constructions, participants' experiences and recontextualisation
… and a framework and concepts from critical discourse studies (CDS). Specifically, I draw on Bernstein’s (1990; 2000) principles of how pedagogic discourse is created, the identities available to students and teachers, the notion of the official recontextualising field (ORF) and the pedagogic …
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Radical visible pedagogy and specializing the everyday
Studies in pursuit of understanding a pedagogic practice to optimise learning across socioeconomic classes have taken various forms, with classroom-based studies ranging from focussing on single pedagogic elements to Bernsteinian-type studies allowing for the investigation of the relationship …
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Mathematics, pedagogy and textbooks : a study of textbook use in Grade 7 mathematics classrooms
… from Basil Bernstein's sociological theory of pedagogic discourse. While the model was developed in relation to the content and use of a specific textbook, the model can potentially be used for other mathematics textbooks or textbooks from other disciplines. Analysis shows that the textbook, …
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Why Didn't They Get It? An Investigation into the Pedagogic Practices of a Vocational Curriculum
… of their studies. This study interrogates the pedagogic practices in a Live Sound, vocational course offered by Cape Audio College, a private provider of higher education in South Africa. Students are immersed in an authentic learning experience and the curriculum is centred around an …
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A Qualitative Study into the Impact of Outcomes Based Education on Engineering Educators and Engineering Education in the Technical Higher Education Sector in Ireland
… to NFQ terminology that has emerged in our pedagogic discourse, and raises concerns about the impact on curriculum and the structure of engineering education.
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Religion, solidarity and identity: a comparative study of four South African schools with a religious affiliation
… formal curriculum (both curriculum content and pedagogic method) and how this relates to the pedagogic identities they project. An overarching concern of the thesis is to understand how the character of the affiliated religion relates to the privileging of particular forms of solidarity and …
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Pedagogic evaluation, computational performance and orientations to mathematics: a study of the constitution of Grade 10 mathematics in two secondary schools
… suggest differences in the functioning of pedagogic evaluation, and therefore differences in what is constituted as mathematics, and how, in pedagogic situations differentiated by social class (e.g. Dowling). The contention of this study is that insufficient finegrained analyses have been …
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