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Grover, Ash – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2021
This research is an exploration of my evolving relationship with popular culture: as an activist, an educator, and a self-described pop-culture geek. As a biracial and queer woman working in the field of education, I am motivated to examine my own experiences with formal and informal methods of learning, addressing the social and political gaps in…
Descriptors: Films, Popular Culture, Mass Instruction, Identification
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Olitsky, Stacy – Urban Education, 2015
This article investigates interactional processes by which students from non-dominant groups develop academic identities within schools that privilege the dominant group. It draws on an ethnographic study of an urban magnet school, focusing on a discourse analysis of conversations between 3 eighth-grade girls. Findings include that students…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Identification, Ethnography, Urban Schools
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Wortham, Stanton – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: A typical account of listening focuses on cognition, describing how a listener understands and reacts to the cognitive contents of a speaker's utterance. The articles in this issue move beyond a cognitive view, arguing that listening also involves moral, aesthetic, and political aspects. Focus of Study: This article attends to all four…
Descriptors: Listening, Identification, Speech Communication, Case Studies
Sebba, Mark, Ed.; Mahootian, Shahrzad, Ed.; Jonsson, Carla, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection of new work on the alternation of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Written Language, Multilingualism, Discourse Analysis
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Black, Rebecca W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
Based on longitudinal data from a three year ethnographic study, this article uses discourse analytic methods to explore the literacy and social practices of three adolescent English language learners writing in an online fan fiction community. Theoretical constructs within globalization and literacy studies are used to describe the influences of…
Descriptors: Fiction, Web Sites, Discourse Analysis, Adolescents
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Godley, Amanda J. – Communication Education, 2003
Drawing from a six-month ethnographic study, this article explores the negotiation of gendered identities through classroom literacy practices in an urban high school, paying particular attention to how gendered identities are interwoven with those of race, class, and other social identities during literary discussions. I draw upon the notion that…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Ethnography, Literacy, Sexual Identity