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Kozak, Donna L.; Schnellert, Leyton M. – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
Critical participatory action researchers (CPAR) (Kemmis et al., 2014; Ledwith & Springett, 2014) created conditions for 25 parents and teachers to join as co-researchers in this research study. Together, they co-created a hybrid discursive third space (Gee, 1996; Gutierrez, 2008) that invited alignment of their respective funds of knowledge…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Family School Relationship
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Nahachewsky, James; Begoray, Deborah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
This article explores language and literacy teachers' classroom experiences in a digital age. Drawing on multi-literacies and new literacy studies frameworks, we use metaphors of classroom as text and teacher as author to build an understanding of the challenges and changes examined in the findings of two separate studies. The teachers were…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Figurative Language, Language Arts
Goldberg, Michelle P. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
This article explores the link between discourse and policy using a discursive web metaphor. It develops the notion of policy as a discursive web based on a post-positivist framework that recognises the way multiple discourses from multiple voices interact in a complex web of power relationships to influence reality. Using Ontario's Access to…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Immigrants