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Chris Friend – Composition Studies, 2024
Composition courses have a contentious relationship with textbooks. On one hand, textbooks grant legitimacy to a eld that historically struggled with its image of being in service to other elds. On the other hand, in a course designed to teach students authorial agency, discursive sensitivity, audience awareness, and the dialogic nature of…
Descriptors: Authors, Textbooks, Expertise, Power Structure
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Andrew Schenck – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2024
Power distance (PD), a cultural value denoting acceptance of asymmetrical power relationships, influences the force of rhetoric used by a writer to address their reader. However, AI technologies such as ChatGPT lack an explicit awareness of PD, which could affect the quality of AI-generated persuasive texts used for language learning. To…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Persuasive Discourse
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Hora, Matthew T.; Smolarek, Bailey B.; Martin, Kelly Norris; Scrivener, Luke – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
One of the problematic features of the "skills discourse" is the view that skills are decontextualized bits of knowledge and disposition. Instead, how skills such as communication are defined and used are shaped by cultural, political, and situational factors. In this article, we integrate theory from communication studies, critical…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Job Skills
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Bowl, Marion – Critical Studies in Education, 2008
This paper explores the potential for conducting collaborative and critical research in higher education which problematises the role and practices of the academy in maintaining exclusion. It begins with a brief discussion of UK government discourse on widening participation, and contrasts this with the research literature which indicates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Participation, College Students
McCammon, Laura A.; Smigiel, Heather – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2004
The authors describe ethical issues they have encountered when teachers develop narratives about their own practice and then again when these narratives are later explored using drama techniques. Specifically, they look at the developmental process itself, both in the creation of the original narrative and the subsequent creation of a dramatic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Drama, Personal Narratives, Teachers
Pace, Judith L., Ed.; Hemmings, Annette B., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This book describes and analyzes authority relationships in classrooms through explorations of theory, prior research, and contemporary qualitative studies. The emphasis is on the social construction of authority and the crucial role authority plays in K-16 teachers' pedagogy and students' academic engagement and achievement. The introductory…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Classroom Environment, Social Theories, Democracy