Discourse and Education

Marilyn Martin-Jones

ISBN 10: 9048194571 / ISBN 13: 9789048194575

Editore: Springer Netherlands Jul 2010, 2010

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 448 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Discourse and Education
• Editore: Springer Netherlands Jul 2010
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9048194571
• ISBN 13: 9789048194575
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 23 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 756 grammi

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Riassunto

This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of ‘discource’. The text of each review is followed by a reference list containing about 30 key references mentioned in the text.

Informazioni sull?autore

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include language planning and policy; bilingualism, bilingual education and biliteracy; and the ethnography of communication. Marilyn Martin-Jones is professor of Languages in Education and Director of the MOSAIC Centre. Anne-Marie de Mejía is associate professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Columbia.