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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"pedagogic device"”.
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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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A study of the constitution of Grade 8 mathematics within the context of the Revised National Curriculum Statement in five Western Cape schools
… (1996) sociological theory of education and his pedagogic device. This study focuses on the way in which the content of the evaluative rule of the pedagogic device is realised in the particular selection of schools. My theoretical framework relies on of the work of Davis (2010a, 2010b, 2010c, …
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Curriculum Governance in the Professions: A Comparative and Sociological Analysis of Engineering Accreditation
… study is theoretically grounded in Bernstein’s pedagogic device, from the sociology of education, and regime theory, from international relations. At a global level, the key findings are that the Washington Accord has evolved into an explicit regime that shapes the behaviour of its 20+ …
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The admission process : how portfolio assessment establishes the pedagogic subject of fashion design
… revealed how the three interrelated rules of the pedagogic device, namely distributive, recontextualising and evaluative rules regulate pedagogic communication and how their selective transmission and acquisition determine the pedagogic subject of fashion design. Recognition and realisation rules …
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English medium instruction policies as a form of symbolic control: Making visible the changing faces of language and content in higher education
… and Bernstein’s (2000) conceptualization of the pedagogic device. The central questions that I ask in this study are: How does EMI policy influence curriculum-planning, teaching, and learning within the higher education pedagogic device? What are the changing faces of language and content under …
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‘Education or training?’: a case study of undergraduate business curriculum in a new university business school
… of undergraduate business curriculum design and pedagogic practice in a post-1992 university business school (UBS). The central aim of the research was to investigate the factors that combined to influence the design and enactment of the BA Business Studies and BA Entrepreneurship and Innovation …
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Fractured pedagogy: the design and implementation fault line in architectural knowledge - a conceptual and historical analysis
… modern profession. In this analysis Bernstein's pedagogic device is used as the framework for locating and unraveling the historic data in terms of the production and recontextualisation of knowledge, distributive rules and power relations between agents. The history maps neatly onto this …
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Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity
… using Basil Bernstein’s (2000) theory of the Pedagogic Device, offering a language of description to examine how forms of regulation differentially distributed various identities and forms of consciousness. Specifically, this study explored how varying modalities of classification and framing …
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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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Critical thinking across the disciplines: understanding and application
… theoretical framework, consisting of Bernstein’s pedagogic device theory, to trace the macro and micro influences on university structures and teaching-learning interactions, as well as Bourdieu’s theories of field, habitus and capital, to inform issues of agency in these areas, has been utilised. …
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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
… 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 discourse inherent to both practices. Furthermore, this research study sought to understand the sort of …
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An analysis of how knowledge is differentiated in a vocationally based curriculum for a new profession
… recontextualising field of Bernstein’s (2000) Pedagogic Device, the study explores types of knowledge and the organising principles that constitute knowledge practices within a South African vocational educational setting. Of particular interest to the study are ways in which conceptual …
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Knowledge used for teaching counting: A case study of the treatment of counting by two Grade 3 teachers situated in schools serving working class communities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
… that this is a problem stemming from the poor pedagogic, and or content knowledge of classroom mathematics teachers. Shulman (1986; 1987) refers to this area of knowledge as Pedagogic Content Knowledge (PCK). In the field of mathematics teaching and learning, Ball, Thames and Phelps (2008) …
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The restructuring of the professional knowledge base of teachers in England 2010-2024
… recourse to Basil Bernstein’s concept of the pedagogic device (PD), combined the metatheoretical language of critical realism (CR). These conceptual resources enable clear explication of how concepts move through the ‘levels’ of the PD – from the world of ideas through to pedagogic practice. …
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An investigation of what knowledge in valued and how it is communicated in a mathematics support course for first-year engineering students
… is founded on Bernstein's (1996) theory of the pedagogic device, since it affords a language for speaking about the transformation of knowledge into pedagogic communication. I adopted theoretical tools from Davis's (2001; 2005) investigation of PCA at the primary school level. My study …
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An investigation into the constitution of absolute value inequalities by Grade 12 students in a selection of Western Cape State schools as displayed in students' solutions to a baseline test problem
… of the constitution of school Mathematics in pedagogic settings and the methodology draws from a study by Davis (2013a) who examined Grade 11 students' treatment of linear inequalities. This study uses a grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss 1967; 1999) as well as Weber's (1964) theory of …
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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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Trials and tribunals: consensus seeking in course design approval in Higher Education
… as a subfield. Bernstein’s code theory and the pedagogic device are applied to develop an external language of description for curriculum development knowledge. This analysis is differentiated using Maton’s Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), and its dimensions of autonomy, semantics 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 …