Uses the lens of postcolonial theory to reflect on the author's uses of a varied series of writing pedagogies in cross-cultural classrooms at an international college. Suggests that a pedagogy constructed against the backdrop of postcolonial theory might provide both students and their teacher in such a cross-cultural setting with a more complex…

A management course included a qualitative research module in which a panel of three faculty researchers demonstrated their methods (interpretive, grounded theory, and critical discourse analysis) using an interview transcript. Class discussion and a 6-month follow-up focus group indicated the module demystified data analysis and illustrated…

Presents three connected essays that use the idea of genre to study discourse communities. Examines several contexts of language exchange in which the use of genre theory may yield insight into teaching, research, and social interaction: legal practice, medical practice, and classrooms. Suggests how genre analysis contributes to the use of…

Presents the opportunity to continue and enhance the dialogue about ways to research and understand children's discourse during science activities and inquiry processes by opening a window onto a variety of techniques, methods, and approaches to the analysis of one short discussion between several elementary students. (Author/MVL)

In a 1950s Portuguese journal for high school teachers, their professional image was depicted variously as artisan, professional, and intellectual. The climate in 1950s Portugal presented political and ideological constraints to the assertion of teacher professionalism. (Contains 18 references.) (SK)

Focus groups of 19 graduate social work students viewed two episodes of "The Golden Girls." Students had differing opinions on whether the program reinforced or challenged social stereotypes about older women. The need for positive media portrayals and for media literacy was identified. (Contains 46 references.) (SK)

Notes how the author usually limits her instructional role to that of facilitator, focusing on methods more than on specific content, but occasionally she feels compelled to take a more proactive approach, to guide the students toward one reading of a text. Considers that teaching Willa Cather's 1905 short story "Paul's Case" as a piece…

Presents a critical discourse analysis of two Committee on Special Education meetings for one middle school girl. Drawing on 2 years of ethnographic data, the study demonstrates that the second-year meeting was wrought with contradictions. Suggests the need to look to institutional discourses and cases of subjective experiences in order to…

Focuses on the acquisition of linguistic devices used for discourse cohesion in Chinese and French. Particular attention is paid to how two types of learners acquire the linguistic means for marking topics, in particular French "dislocation," and its discourse-pragmatic functions. Data consist of narratives based on picture sequences, produced in…

Uses conversation analysis to examine talk of two British children at ages ranging between 2 and 10 years as they interact with other children, their parents, and their grandparents. Considers representations or discourses of childhood evident in these everyday conversations and ways in which children position themselves with regard to such…

Analysis of methods used by the right-wing environmental social movement to alter gains made by environmentalists finds that conservatives have both grassroots and elite sponsorship and the movement is an effective site of adult learning, resistance, and meaning making. (Contains 89 references.) (SK)

Suggests that while postmodern criticism has enjoyed a certain amount of currency, the cost of this success has come in the form of detachment. Argues that a reconfiguration of the relations between nature and culture suggests that the posthuman provides us with a fresh perspective from which to examine rhetoric. Identifies some of the problems…

Argues that the story's two themes--a celebration of artistic creativity and a ringing denunciation of prejudice--are closely related through their reliance on the importance of imagination, both artistic and moral. Employs recent work in moral theory to analyze the way in which the resolution of Estes's story turns on the characters' growth in…

Suggests that "The Shoe Bird" uses animal characters to explore women's authorship. Locates in Gloria, one of the main characters, evidence of the creativity and fortitude required to write as a woman in cultures where written language has conventionally been seen as the domain of men. (SG)

Reports on research conducted by the Queensland Centre of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium within the civil construction industry. Argues that the dominant discourse of new capitalism adopt the rhetoric of worker empowerment while actually implementing technologies of top-down control. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for…