Considers how school agendas dominate virtually every aspect of professional theatre for young audiences (TYA) companies. Proves the historical heritages of this ideological dance. Explores the TYA field through perspectives of agency - the implications of the overt activities of the field in the signifying discourses of the field. (SG)

Four management textbook authors react to the metaphor of textbooks as propaganda. All write to support managerial ideology and are aware of the market, but believe their role in shaping the field is limited. Includes two responses: "Propaganda, Trusteeship, and Artifact" (Daniel R. Gilbert) and "The Hegemonic Discourse of…

This analysis of transcripts of interviews with a specific group of information seekers (pregnant women) identifies the context-specific discursive techniques that they used in enhancing or undermining the authority of peer and professional information sources. (Contains 74 references.) (MES)

Investigates the heart of the experience of mathematical engagement and the meaning derived from such activities. Analyzes dialogue between five people, two of whom are professional mathematicians, another two who are graduate students in either engineering or education, and one who lacks advanced mathematical training but maintains a positive…

Discusses student resistance to classroom participation and immersion based on personal experience and suggests an alternative approach for discourse and inquiry. (YDS)

Illustrates the efficacy of an approach for collecting and analyzing family conversational data at museums and other informal settings. Examines data from three families which focus on conversation centered on biological themes, specifically adaptation. Analyzes inquiry skills used in making sense of science content. Offers educators…

Explores to what extent and for which visitors do free-choice learning settings accomplish their educational mission. Uses data collected at the National Aquarium in Baltimore to determine whether grouping makes it possible to discern the nature of changes in aquarium visitors' conservation knowledge and attitudes. Discusses the effects of learner…

Describes the polyphonic nature of the discursive field of education and the interplay between various contexts and contextual resources. Videotapes eight preservice teachers over a 6-month period as they talked with a tutor. Adopts the concept of intertextuality as a method to identify the polyphony of different voices. Finds some students have a…

Identifies five characteristics of the "feminine style" in political discourse: basing political judgments on concrete, lived experience; valuing inclusivity and the relational nature of being; conceptualizing the power of public office as a capacity to "get things done" and to empower others; approaching policy formation…

Notes that the hallmark of Madonna's career has been her contradictory play with gender roles and images. Argues that while the analytic foci are varied, feminist evaluations of Madonna's contradictory gender play continue to employ binary models of assessing Madonna as either challenging or reinforcing gender roles. Analyzes Madonna's "The…

Examines introductory genres and their various realizations, conventionally used to introduce academic books and variously named as "introduction,""preface,""acknowledgement," and "publishers blurb" to investigate their nature, function, and structure within the context of current theory in genre analysis…

Examines some of the ways in which nature is textualized in technocultural discourses with particular reference to the incorporation of satellite-based weather monitoring and digital imaging technologies into global consumer markets of information and entertainment. Suggests that critical readings of popular media representations of weather are…

Considers how working with accounts of famous trials can involve students in thinking through and critiquing important techniques of argumentation. Discusses how criticism that can be applied to arguments in criminal proceedings can sometimes be applied to arguments in student essays. Discusses how the author incorporates this into her classroom.…

Revisits the author's efforts to deliberately craft words that surfaced in conversations with others. Reflects on the writing of "What Difference Does Difference Make," which won the author the Emig Award. Emphasizes two qualities of pedagogical storytelling that are critically important when that talk is about "difference."…

Questions the communications between two discourse communities, medical practices and health insurance companies. Finds that much of the communication between the medical activity systems and the business insurance systems resulted in contradictions of genres objectives, and agency, and these contradictions were eventually negotiated through…