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A Foucauldian Perspective on Student Experiences of Family Discourses in Post-Primary Schools
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Desmond, Ann-Marie – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
This work involves researching normative family discourses which are mediated through post-primary settings. The traditional family, consisting of father, mother and children all living together in one house (nuclear) is no longer reflective of the home situation of many Irish students [Lunn, P., and T. Fahey. 2012. "Households and Family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Structure
Adult Education as a Heterotopia of Deviation: A Dwelling for the Abnormal Citizen
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Sandberg, Fredrik; Fejes, Andreas; Dahlstedt, Magnus; Olson, Maria – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2016
We argue that municipal adult education (MAE) can be seen as a place for displaced and abnormal citizens to gain temporary stability, enabling their shaping into desirable subjects. Drawing on a poststructural discursive analysis, we analyze policy texts and interviews with teachers and students. Our analysis illustrates how two distinct but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Public Education, Discourse Analysis
Using Cross-Cultural, Intergenerational Play Narratives to Explore Issues of Social Justice and Equity in Discourse on Children's Play
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Shimpi, Priya Mariana; Nicholson, Julie – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Discussion of children's play in international and diverse communities requires careful consideration of social, cultural and political contexts impacting children's lives, as well as recognition of the complexities revealed when these variables are identified and analysed. Using diverse conceptual frameworks represented in the research…
Descriptors: Play, Childhood Attitudes, Adults, Interviews
Digital Practices and Literacy Identities: Preservice Teachers Negotiating Contradictory Discourses of Innovation
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Ortega, Leticia – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2013
This paper presents the results of a research study on preservice English teachers' understandings of the interconnection of literacy and technology in relation to their teaching practices. The study was conducted in an English education program among preservice teachers enrolled in a year-long internship. The data analyzed consisted of interview…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Interviews, Discussion, Information Technology
Challenging Essentialist Discourses on Children's Self-Identities: "The Child" in Cultural Radicalism and Revolutionary Practices in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s
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Ohrlander, Kajsa – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
This article tries to understand, by using some poststructural tools, practices with children that were performed by a Left action group in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s. Modernist resistance discourses of enlightenment and liberation from obedience, silence and innocence can be seen as being produced, together with postmodern acts of unfolding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Political Attitudes, Child Development
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
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Somekh, Bridget, Ed.; Lewin, Cathy, Ed. – SAGE Publications (UK), 2005
This book is intended as a resource and an indispensable companion to welcome educators into the community of social science research. While it is recognized that some methodological frameworks are incompatible with others, the overarching premise of the book is to indicate how a wide range of researchers choose a methodology and methods which are…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Ethics