In studies of minority language education, researchers tend to base their arguments on the assumption that knowledge empowers and ignorance disempowers. In this article, however, I show two alternative dynamics of knowledge and relations of dominance by drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork at a secondary school in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1997-8.…

Argues that the social sciences and humanities bring different attitudes and methods to the problem of meaning and that both views are flawed. Concludes that a realignment of literary studies under the aegis of rhetoric is necessary. (FL)

The possible relationship between metalingual knowledge in form of rules and communicative knowledge of language as demonstrated in second/foreign language production is examined. An emerging psycholinguistic monolingual production model is described. (52 references) (Author/LB)

In this analysis of prior knowledge and bilingual literacy, it is suggested that the basis upon which cognitive decisions are made and nonvisual inferences are drawn comes from the background knowledge that the reader possesses as tacit or prior knowledge. It is claimed that the only model that can account for the pluralistic nature of language is…

This set of four research reports is a product of the Mathemagenic Activities Program (MAP) for early childhood education of the University of Georgia Follow Through Program. Based on Piagetian theory, the MAP provides sequentially structured sets of curriculum materials and processes that are designed to continually challenge children in…