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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"discursive practice"”.
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An examination of philosophy with children as a material discursive practice in a year 7 classroom
… to bring their own ways of knowing to classroom practice. It began from my concern that dominant neo-liberal educational discourses and deficit models of the child limit students’ and teachers’ ability to be heard as knowers in schools. The research was set within the context of the United …
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Identity as discursive practice : historical, social-cultural and political interactions in understanding workers' identities in tea plantations in Sri Lanka
… constructed by workers through their daily practices and conversation. Within this context, how workers articulate the fundamentally ambiguous and contradictory nature of their self-identity as singular and collective is discussed. It is stable and emergent, and contested as it becomes …
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Language, Ideology and Power in Uganda
… of linguistic respectability from Anglo-Kiganda discursive practice, which ultra-valorizes English (and to some extent Luganda) over Kiswahili and other Ugandan languages, the state tends to draw its models from Anglophone East African discursive practice more broadly, which value English and …
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The school mathematics textbook as an instantiation of the pedagogic discourse of school mathematics
… genre to the production of school mathematics discursive practices; and secondly, that the semiotic tools selected for the analysis can be applied productively to the analysis of school textbooks. The analysis is situated within the framework of Bernstein's theory of pedagogic discourse. School …
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Foucault, Marx and the question of politics: The materialist problematics of power
… within a new and specific kind of materialist discursive practice which Foucault seeks to develop on the basis of the discourse initiated by Marx at the modern theoretical conjuncture. For this purpose, it tries to bring to new light Foucault's understanding of Marx (the apparent absence of …
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An Archaeology of Pain
<p>Pain is a discursive construct of science and medicine. Through the discourses of biopower and technoscience pain is used to construct and maintain the social body. Biopower and technoscience are discursive practices that are enveloped within the disciplines of Western society. Specifically, the …
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Children's constructions of gender, power, and adult occupation
… issue of adult occupation. It argues that the discursive practice of gender dichotomy which positions all people as male or female leads the majority of children to construct the genders as different. Further, identification and visual demonstration of gender leads some children to construct …
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Posthuman Leadership and the Role of Computational Objects
… explores the relationship between leadership practice and said objects. This study helps to close this critical gap in both practical and theoretical knowledge. Through an interrogation of leadership practice and their enactments with computational objects across a range of situational and …
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The Power of the Interpreter in the Business Domain: A CDA Approach to the Professional Interpreter’s Mediating Role
This study explores current practices in business interpreting in China with the aim of identifying the power of the interpreter from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Given the dramatic increase in trade and economic exchanges between China and Western countries, business …
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Finnish media discourses on Calais, France 2016
… which are the levels of textual analysis, discursive practice and social practice. The analysis includes chronological discussion on the material divided in three main discourses, which are the othering discourse, securitization and border discourse as well as the humanitarian discourse. …
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Social representations informing discourses of young leaders: a case study of Tanzania
… is a theoretical and textual analysis of the discursive practice of young leaders in Tanzania, as a means to understand the dominant representations of a group that plans to take over the leadership of the country In the future. Representations are collective discursive formations conditioned …
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Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
The present study elucidates the discursive practice of positivism, as particularly manifested in late nineteenth-century Brazil. Founded in 1889, the Republic of the United States of Brazil was constructed as a positivist state by republican idealists and pragmatic oligarchs; the political …
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Architecture beyond cultural politics : Western practice in the Arabian peninsula
… ideas are received. This study argues that the "discursive practice" and the cultural politics underlying the work of architecture serve to place identity as the centerpiece of discussion which in tum reduces architecture to a set of prevalent characterizations and obscures any meaningful …
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Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health
My study has investigated how the practice of channelling symptoms of psychosis through the medium of creative art forms has empowered three young adults to create alternative discourses to trouble and unsettle the dynamic of power between service provider and service user through the interweaving …
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Imagining National Cuisine: Food, Media, and the Nation
… a thick description of Korean food television’s discursive practice with regard to national cuisine and the Korean nation. My historical analysis of food television shows that an increased awareness of cultural others enhances a struggle for nation-ness. By unveiling the “Janus-faced” …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… unruly behavior; likewise, the dominant discursive practice of Spain's political transition from dictatorship to democracy (1975--1982) attempted to ""silence"" the extreme views---separatism, communism---that might ""infect"" the body politic. El desorden de tu nombre (1988) incorporates …
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Deconstructing domestic violence policy
… deconstructing policy. Policy is theorised as a discursive practice, which allows a variety of policies to be compared and critiqued by how they position the people they affect. These are known as subject positions, or subjectivities, and throughout this thesis I attempt to critique policy by …
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
… set of new organisational structures, practices, and relations that would have the power to effect not only radical changes in management and organisation, but also far-reaching societal transformation. To a significant extent however, the discourse of virtual organisation remains …
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The nineteenth century discourse on Indian architecture
… just historical buildings but also contemporary practices in India, considering them as exemplary for European architects. The argument made is that his contribution to the marginalization of the Indian architecture therefore, resulted not from intention but, paradoxically, from his very efforts …
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Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… All the while, conventional professional spatial practices remain structurally elitist and seem ineffectual in settings of ‘urban informality’, which largely overlap with the lived experience of the black urban poor. Urban theory continues to reinforce a binary conceptualisation in which …
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