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Sherard, Max K.; Azevedo, Flávio S. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
We present a novel method for the critical analysis of professional scientists' communications with the public. The method blends Entman's (2007) [Framing bias: Media in the distribution of power. "Journal of Communication," 57(1), 163-173)] framing theory and van Leeuwen's (1996) [The representation of social actors. In C. R.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Science and Society, Journal Articles, STEM Careers
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Moratti, Sofia – Gender and Education, 2020
Various metaphors are used in the literature and media to refer to the careers and experiences of women academics. In the wake of the fascinating debate in the literature surrounding the adequacy of these expressions, considerable effort has been devoted to the pursuit of 'the ideal metaphor': one that is comprehensible, inclusive, intersectional,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Women Faculty, Discourse Analysis, Gender Issues
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Ignatovich, Elena – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
In most of the scholarly work, the history of lifelong education (LLE) begins in the 1960s, when the concept gathered momentum as part of the agendas of the OECD, World Bank, UNESCO, and Council of Europe. A pre-1960s history is acknowledged with a few names and dates and is generally absorbed into the history of adult education. This paper…
Descriptors: Educational History, Lifelong Learning, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
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Greenhalgh-Spencer, Heather – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2017
Within the digital workforce, women are disappearing. While there are many factors that could be "blamed" for this phenomenon, this article takes issue with the sexist and patriarchal discourses that are deployed within the digital workforce. In many ways, sexist discourses are taken for granted within the digital workplace; and in that…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Females, Discourse Analysis
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Yang, Hongyan – English Language Teaching, 2016
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), a Pulitzer Prize winner, is a distinguished female novelist at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work "The Age of Innocence" contributes much to the formation of a female literary tradition. Wharton's subversion of male discourse can be well traced in her novel "The Age of…
Descriptors: Authors, Novels, Feminism, Females
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Nairn, Karen; Wyn, Johanna – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
The "coming of age" films "Bend it like Beckham," "Whale Rider" and "Harry Potter" feature distinctive narratives about girlhood and boyhood that provide a perspective on the changing historical and political context of gendered identity construction in the new millennium. The early 2000s represented a…
Descriptors: Films, Discourse Analysis, Gender Differences, Politics
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D'Souza, Carol; Brahme, Milind; Babu, M. Suresh – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
This article analyses the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks of environmental studies using critical discourse analysis to shed light on questions such as how the environment is dealt with in the text, using what kind of language are environmental concerns framed, how is the current environment crisis contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Peers, Chris; Agbenyega, Joseph – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
In this article we offer an ontological theorization of care. The article interrogates the self-evident quality of everyday meanings for "care" that might be generated from psychological or biological discourses; we aim to question the way that "care" is applied in a technical or an emotional sense within the field of early…
Descriptors: Caring, Early Childhood Education, Discourse Analysis, Gender Issues
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Paule, Michele – Gender and Education, 2015
The persistence of gendered learning myths in educational contexts and the wider imaginary continues to trouble feminist educational researchers and practitioners. The tracing of such myths and the categories they create through authoritative and elite discourses of the past suggests how they have functioned across different fields to preserve a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Misconceptions, Intellectual History
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Schmeichel, Mardi – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
This article explores recently published P-12 social studies lesson plans that include women to examine how attending to women is "getting done" in the field and how the lessons represent women and women's experiences. Using discourse analysis methodologies, the author demonstrates that women have been included as topics in ways that do…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Females, Lesson Plans, Discourse Analysis
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Pechtelidis, Yannis; Kosma, Yvonne; Chronaki, Anna – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper explores certain possible reasons behind the uneasy relationship between women and technology. The cultural identification of technology with masculinity has been well documented through previous research. However, we feel it is useful to revisit this complex relationship through the scope of a more subtle distinction between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Computers
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Atkins, Liz; Vicars, Mark – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw on concepts of "female masculinity" to interrogate how hegemonic gendering discourses, forms and performances are inscribed in neoliberal narratives of competency in higher education in the Western Hemisphere. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on individual examples, the authors consider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Femininity, Gender Issues
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Pomerantz, Shauna; Raby, Rebecca – Gender and Education, 2011
This article explores how six teenage girls talk about being smart in the wake of celebratory discourses touting gender equality in education and beyond. Set against the neo-liberal backdrop of "What about the boys?" and "girl power", it is assumed that smart girls today "have it all" and, therefore, no longer require feminist interventions in the…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
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Ehrensal, Patricia A. L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2012
Student speech has and continues to be a contested issue in schools. The Supreme Court ruled in "Tinker" that students do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gate; in the "Kuhlmeier" and "Fraser" decisions, however, the Court gave school officials greater latitude in regulating student speech, especially when it…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Freedom of Speech, Student Rights, Court Litigation
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Tainio, Liisa – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This article uses a conversation analytic framework to explore reproaches in classroom interaction. The data used is naturally occurring Finnish classroom interaction (students aged 13-15). The analysis focuses on reproaches that are used in order to silence students and in which gendered address terms are included. In the data occurrences, the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Interaction, Males, Discourse Analysis
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