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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"discursive positioning"”.
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Discursive positioning in theory and practice: a case for narrative mediation
… is a study of the usefulness of the concept of ‘discursive positioning’ in the practice of mediation and in the analysis of what happens in mediation. Mediation, as typically practised, has developed within the general philosophical framework of modernist thought, exemplified in mediation by the …
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Wild Country Hall: Children’s learning at a residential outdoor education centre.
… and answers three questions: • How useful might discursive positioning be as a perspective on learning? • What are the discourses at Wild Country Hall and how are they different to schooling discourses? • How might neo-Liberal discursive practices, including performativity and current schooling …
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A necessary fiction: The ritualisation of stakeholder practices in New Zealand cinema
… the concept ‘national cinema’ is located in the discursive positioning of individual films in such a way that they are connected to a national ‘common ground’, one which is ritually accessed via engagement with media such as cinema. This positioning, however, is not quantifiable and may not be …
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Subjectivity in the 'maid'/'madam' relationship and its effects on the occupational child care-giving functions of the domestic worker
This study investigated the manner in which discursive practises in the social relations within domestic service position, the domestic worker, and the work she does, as of low status and impinges on the child caregiving functions of the domestic worker. The extent to which racial factors are …
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Narrative Conflict Coaching
… to each of the steps in the process. Analysis of discursive positioning from statements early in each of the conversations and also from late in each conversation indicated positioning shifts in the direction of creating an alternative narrative into which the participants might live. Both …
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Masculinity, power, sexual negotiation and AIDS : a discourse analysis
… power, sexuality and AIDS. It examines how discursive positioning within discourses of sexuality and masculinity affects the way heterosexual men negotiate safer sex. Four groups of sexually active men aged 17-28 were constituted to discuss masculinity, sexual negotiation and AIDS. A …
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Talking posh, acting posh? The construction of gendered identities and identifications in the talk of multilingual undergraduate students on an academic writing programme
… of gender in higher education, the multiple discursive positioning of non-elite undergraduate participants, as both powerless and powerful, and the attempts to balance the demands of key communities of practice in the negotiation of identity. This forms the basis for reflection on practices …
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Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan
… use of various interpretative repertoires (i.e., discursive themes and specific rhetorical moves therein) and positioning of self and Others. Interpretative repertoires and discursive positioning of self and Others are major analytical frameworks of discursive psychology that were developed by …