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Navare, Charudatta – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
A number of scholars have shown the prevalence of multiple metaphors in biological conceptions of the living cell. However, there is little research into unpacking these metaphors to understand their ideological implications for scientific knowledge and science education. In this paper, I perform a critical discourse analysis of the representation…
Descriptors: Cytology, Science Instruction, Textbooks, Content Analysis
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Fidelis Awoke Nwokwu – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
The study presents an exploration of how interpersonal relationships are created in a speech text. It investigated former President Muhammadu Buhari's Independence Day speech using mood structural analysis. The analysis aimed to explore the power of using mood structure in addressing Nigerians about the President's programs and policies during the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Speeches
Sharon E. McCann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Between the decades of 1970 through 1999, there were major shifts in higher education in New Jersey. Utilizing a grounded theory approach this dissertation created a database of legislation, hearings transcripts, and education reports. Searching this database for commonly used terminology, this dissertation was seeking a pattern in language use…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, State Policy, Educational Policy
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Ehrlich, Serguey – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
In the fifteen Russian textbooks of the 1990s examined in this article, the Second World War is subject to three levels of reflection: language, narrative templates, and the representation of contested events. The language used in the textbooks represents an amalgam of Soviet propagandistic clichés and uncritically adopted Western terminology.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Content Analysis
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Laskin, Alexander V.; Mikhailovna Nesova, Natalya – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2022
The discussion of sustainability reporting rarely addresses the inherent paradox within this concept--tremendous costs associated with sustainability efforts and lack of direct return on these investments. This study contributes to the discussion on sustainability by studying this paradox from the linguistic standpoint in order to answer a simple…
Descriptors: Corporations, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Marketing
Swift, Kelsey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this three-paper dissertation project, I explore how 'English' becomes a recognizable object within the context of adult ESOL education. Building on scholarship on named languages (Garcia, 2019; Makoni & Pennycook, 2006), the historical construction of languages (Bonfiglio, 2010; Irvine & Gal, 2000), and raciolinguistic ideologies…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Stevenson, Andre P.; Alexander, Kendra P.; Thomas, Kenisha; Richardson, Sonyia; Turnage, Barbara; Clarke, Anna; Wood, Zionna – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
Linguistic norms concerning issues of social injustice, racism specifically, vary by discipline. In this study, the authors used content analysis to examine discourse in the social work profession related to racism and anti-racist action. Our investigation found that the usage of forthright terms such as racism, white supremacy, and oppression in…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Racism, Educational Policy
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Rene W. Albertus; Frank Makoza – Transformation in Higher Education, 2025
In this article, the researchers interrogate the media discourse on the national students financial aid scheme (NSFAS) crisis, as well as how the language used by politicians and students, shaped the decision-making of stakeholders. A qualitative approach was employed to analyse online media articles. Content analysis was used to organise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
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Shume, Teresa J. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
This study examined the conceptualisation of disability in a teacher education textbook. Drawing on Norman Fairclough's post-structurally informed approach to critical discourse analysis, I deconstructed the language used in a science teacher education textbook to portray disability, and examined relationships to broader socio-political contexts…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Education
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Sporre, Karin – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
In which ways do curricula recognize existential questions of compulsory school students, and what direction is given regarding how to address them? By asking these two questions, this study analyses syllabi for the school subject of religion education and its equivalents in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and in the two German regions of Bavaria and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries
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Waqar Ali Shah; Sumera Umrani; Asadullah Lashari – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Using literature, more specifically poetry in English as F/L2 has grown over time. However, scholars disagree as to whether it makes any difference to language learning or what functions it serves. The purpose of this study is to examine what discourses poetry embodies, what identities it shapes, and whether it can confront dominant ideologies in…
Descriptors: Poetry, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pérez Cañizares, Pilar – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2021
This study aims to compare how leading companies in Spain and in Spanish-speaking Latin America communicate corporate social responsibility or sustainability on their web pages. For this purpose, the pages of 68 companies were examined to establish the accessibility of such topics and to trace how their prominence and wording had evolved over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Social Responsibility, Sustainability
Medriano, Ramon S., Jr.; De Vera, Presley V. – Online Submission, 2020
Anchored on Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, this study traced and analyzed evidence of "dominance construction" in spoken corpus, wherein the subject corpora are political speeches of Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PRRD). Discourse segments from the speeches were extracted using content analysis meant to isolate those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Presidents, Discourse Analysis, Speeches
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Hameed, Ansa; Jabeen, Ismat; Khan, Aalia Mehar – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The need for transformation has led kingdom to envision and encode the Saudi Vision 2030 document; it is not merely an idealistic divination but a manuscript with an appropriate plan to accomplish its anticipated economic and social goals. In fact, planning is a critical factor in the document, which shapes it as a discourse of realization and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Strategic Planning, Economic Development
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Roessger, Kevin M. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2019
A recent manifest content analysis of manuscripts in leading U.S. adult education journals found a discrepancy between how often academics used meaning making language and how often practitioners and policy makers did. It was suggested this was due to the language being unhelpful to practitioner and policy makers' work. A follow up latent content…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Content Analysis, Adult Education, Periodicals
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