Academic literature on the topic 'Recontextualization'

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-295).<br>This study constructs an account of teachers' recontextualizations of the 'problem solving approach', a pedagogic approach prescribed for teaching primary school science by Uganda's official curriculum. It describes how sixteen teachers, located in eight primary schools, interpret and enact the pedagogic prescriptions of the problem solving approach. The study further explores the extent to which school contexts in which the teachers work influence their recontextualizing processes. The conceptual and analytical framework for the study draws on Basil Bernstein's theory of pedagogic discourse, extended with concepts from Paul Dowling's social activity.

In this paper, we explore how corporations use visual artifacts to translate and recontextualize a globally theorized managerial concept (CSR) into a local setting (Austria). In our analysis of the field-level visual discourse, we analyze over 1,600 images in stand-alone CSR reports of publicly traded corporations. We borrow from framing analysis and structural linguistics to show how the meaning structure underlying a multifaceted construct like CSR is constituted by no more than a relatively small number of fundamental dimensions and rhetorical standpoints (topoi). We introduce the concept of imageries-of-practice to embrace the critical role that shared visual language plays in the construction of meaning and the emergence of field-level logics. In particular, we argue that imageries-of-practice, compared to verbal vocabularies, are just as well equipped to link locally resonating symbolic representations and globally diffusing practices, thus expressing both the material and ideational dimension of institutional logics in processes of translation. We find that visual rhetoric used in the Austrian discourse emphasizes the qualities of CSR as a bridging concept, and facilitates the mediation of inconsistencies in several ways: By translating abstract global ideas into concrete local knowledge, imageries-of-practice aid in mediating spatial oppositions; by linking the past, present, and future, they bridge time; by mediating between different institutional spheres and their divergent logics, they appease ideational oppositions and reduce institutional complexity; and, finally, by connecting questionable claims with representations of authenticity, they aid in overcoming credibility gaps.

This project is an investigation of the relationship between spatial dressing and body dressing. It aims to find a new way of dressing the body by looking at how a room is dressed. It is explored by using the mindset of when dressing and furnish a room, looking at elements such as materials, details and fixtures of what defines the different rooms. To gain knowledge and understanding of the chosen elements they have been decontextualized and experimented with on a body, using the body as a spatial canvas. It has been explored through placement in order to challenging the limitations of starting points when dressing as well as other aspects such as the spatial aesthetic as dress, new expressions, function and shape. It suggests a playful- and different interpretation of how to dress the body. The importance of this investigation has been to keep the objects as they are, to mix the things we know and can refer to, in its original form and function, with an unexpected context in order to maximize its potential use and to question how we categorize things.

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The research had as base a qualitative study focused on the following aspects: a) study supervisors and literacy teachers continuous; and b) on literacy pedagogical practices developed with 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of Elementary School. It was developed in two schools of teaching municipal network of Ponta Grossa/PR. Data collection procedures were performed in the analysis of official and legal documents of PNAIC. In addition, the participant observation on the continuous training of study supervisors and literacy teachers in events carried out by the Municipal Secretary of Education and PNAIC Coordination of Ponta Grossa State University were consider for data collection. Participating observation on pedagogical practices in the literacy cycle (1st, 2nd and 3rd years on Elementary School) inside classrooms of two schools in Ponta Grossa town, state of Paraná were carried out for data collection. Interviews with PNAIC general coordinator; PNAIC local coordinator; PNAIC trainer; study supervisor; management and pedagogical team of two schools of municipal education network of Ponta Grossa, Paraná; and literacy teachers also composed the data collection. The thesis argued that PNAIC has elements of a mixed pedagogy based on the pedagogical models of competence and performance. Likewise, the study argued that PNAIC is recontextualized in meso and micro instances setting up different meanings and possibilities in the process of enactment. The results of the research indicate that, although comprehensive, necessary and relevant, the National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age (called PNAIC) presents potentialities, limits and challenges. Some of the potentialities are: PNAIC is a comprehensive program with well defined actions and strategies; it has specific materials for literacy classes; it takes advantage of school existing materials; it makes possible the participation of public universities in the elaboration of the material and education of teachers; it provides greater visibility of the areas of Geography, Art, History and Science, among others. As limitations, the main one is the discontinuity of PNAIC. In addition, there was no accountability for the investments made in the program; not all teachers who participated in the courses remained in the literacy cycle; the financial resources are not passed directly to the universities; and there is no democratic space to publicly debate PNAIC, with the teachers’ participation. The challenges are: the continuity of the program from a network education perspective; discussions about education and the role of the school; improvement in the material and working conditions of the teachers; pedagogical support for teachers at school, specially for beginners; constant monitoring of student learning; curriculum revision of teacher education courses<br>This thesis analysis the production of PNAIC (National Pact for Literacy in the Right Age, inits Portuguese acronym) in Federal Government scope (macro level) and how the actions of the Program were recontextualized by study supervisors and literacy teachers in continuous training (meso level), and inside the classroom by literacy teachers (micro level). It used concepts by Bernstein (1996, 2003) theory on structuration of pedadogical discourse and recontextualization process, as well contributions from the theory of policy enactment by Ball, Maguire and Braun (2016). The research had as base a qualitative study focused on the following aspects: a) study supervisors and literacy teachers continuous; and b) on literacy pedagogical practices developed with 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of Elementary School. It was developed in two schools of teaching municipal network of Ponta Grossa/PR. Data collection procedures were performed in the analysis of official and legal documents of PNAIC. In addition, the participant observation on the continuous training of study supervisors and literacy teachers in events carried out by the Municipal Secretary of Education and PNAIC Coordination of Ponta Grossa State University were consider for data collection. Participating observation on pedagogical practices in the literacy cycle (1st, 2nd and 3rd years on Elementary School) inside classrooms of two schools in Ponta Grossa town, state of Paraná were carried out for data collection. Interviews with PNAIC general coordinator; PNAIC local coordinator; PNAIC trainer; study supervisor; management and pedagogical team of two schools of municipal education network of Ponta Grossa, Paraná; and literacy teachers also composed the data collection. The thesis argued that PNAIC has elements of a mixed pedagogy based on the pedagogical models of competence and performance. Likewise, the study argued that PNAIC is recontextualized in meso and micro instances setting up different meanings and possibilities in the process of enactment. The results of the research indicate that, although comprehensive, necessary and relevant, the National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age (called PNAIC) presents potentialities, limits and challenges. Some of the potentialities are: PNAIC is a comprehensive program with well defined actions and strategies; it has specific materials for literacy classes; it takes advantage of school existing materials; it makes possible the participation of public universities in the elaboration of the material and education of teachers;it provides greater visibility of the areas of Geography, Art, History and Science, among others. As limitations, the main one is the discontinuity of PNAIC. In addition, there was no accountability for the investments made in the program; not all teachers who participated in the courses remained in the literacy cycle; the financial resources are not passed directly to the universities; and there is no democratic space to publicly debate PNAIC, with the teachers’ participation. The challenges are: the continuity of the program from a network education perspective; discussions about education and the role of the school; improvement in the material and working conditions of the teachers; pedagogical support for teachers at school,specially for beginners; constant monitoring of student learning; curriculum revision of teacher education courses

In parliaments, the tasks of drafting legislation and conducting oversight are accomplished by means of complex chains of spoken, written and multimodal texts. In these genre chains, information is recontextualized from one text to another before being debated in sittings of the houses of parliament. This study employs the point of view afforded by linguistic ethnography to investigate critically the ways in which meanings are recontextualized in one section of such a genre chain, namely the process by which committees of South Africa's National Assembly oversee the budgets of government departments and state-owned entities. It does this to identify possible sources of communication difficulties in this process and suggest ways in which these can be minimized. In so doing, it develops a theoretical model of the discursive effects of recontextualization informed by Latour's (1987) notion of black-boxing as well as Maton's (2011) Legitimation Code Theory. This model uses Interactional Sociolinguistics and elements of Systemic Functional Linguistics, including APPRAISAL and Transitivity as tools to describe the realization of these effects in language. This study finds that ideational and interpersonal meanings are condensed and decondensed at particular points in the genre chain in ways that lead to some MPs’ voices being recontextualized more accurately than others’. It also shows that common sources of communication difficulties in the committee process include differences in political background and understandings of committee procedure and participant roles. It recommends that representatives of departments and entities reporting to the committees should receive a fuller prebriefing on their roles; that MPs should receive training on asking clear, focused questions; and that the role of committee secretaries as procedural advisors should be strengthened.

In terms of dress, there are various misconceptions that exist in our ever-so conscious society, which can make Easterners in the Occident neglect aesthetics that are linked to their roots. Orientalist notions of the Middle East and its complex history of conflict have both played their part in developing a cultural disconnection between the East and the Western world. This area of investigation explores the recontextualization of a selection of original and cultural elements from the Levant and Arabian Peninsula by the means of construction within men’s suits, thobes and accompanying traditional attire. The work implies to challenge the Western world’s dominant influence on fashion, where it becomes crucial to assert cultural aspects linked to facts and aesthetic value. What could be deemed as lacking in fashion is an intricate appropriation of Levantine and Arabian elements in relation to shape, proportion and material. In this exploration, it is executed through placing the selected components alongside Westerly ‘reserved’ categories such as the exaggerated shoulder pad, where each action is influenced by the outcome of the previous. The result can be described as a convergence between expressions that are culturally polarizing, which can reinvent the narrative of Westerly misperceived dress and symbols that are both ubiquitous and preserved in the transcultural region.

Through a singular case study, this research enquiry seeks to explore teacher perceptions about the development of a concept-based curriculum program (called as the Conceptual Curriculum by the school), in the context of an International Baccalaureate (IB) World school in the Middle East, and the intended and unintended outcomes of the initiative. The study employs Bernstein’s (1975) theories of classification and framing, and curriculum recontextualization, as an analytical framework to interpret findings. The study is informed through methods such as reading and analyzing of curriculum documents, conducting semi-structured interviews, and the distribution of a web-based questionnaire to teachers. Findings in this research inquiry revealed that, though teachers expressed the experience of creating and delivering the Conceptual Curriculum as sometimes being challenging and frustrating, a vast majority of the teachers prefer a flexible curriculum framework versus a prescriptive curriculum. However, findings also revealed that, though teachers seem to enjoy the freedom and flexibility of working with broad curricular frameworks as opposed to prescriptive curricula, there seem to be some fundamental questions pertinent to curriculum recontextualization remaining unanswered, for which perhaps teachers seek answers from qualified curriculum development personnel. Findings reveal that when broad curricular frameworks get recontextualized, the lack of consensus amongst teachers on what counts as essential knowledge is often a matter of concern. Findings reveal that in curriculum recontextualization, when having to negotiate between a “multiplicity of pedagogic fields” (Cambridge, 2011, p. 129) teachers seem to be inherently aligning to something that is a “crystal clear benchmark” such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP), as opposed to something that is more flexible and open-ended such as the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP). The disciplinary focus of the Conceptual Curriculum and the tendency of teachers to align more towards the IB DP rather than the IB PYP (even in lower grades such as 7 and 8) has thus resulted in a quick transition from the “weakly classified” (Bernstein 1971, p.49) inter-disciplinary IB PYP curriculum to a “strongly classified” (Bernstein 1971, p.49) Conceptual Curriculum with disciplinary focus. Findings from this study reveal that teachers see the value and purpose in teaching for conceptual understanding, but this, when coupled with having to choose curriculum content and developing a coherent curriculum has made the experience both challenging and burdensome for them. Findings also reveal that practical agendas of the school, such as addressing limited time and staffing issues assume priority over lofty ideals when the curriculum is recontextualized, thereby indicating that school-based curriculum initiatives lose rigor and form, in the cracks of everyday practice. Findings in this study thus suggest that when teachers are offered the possibility of working with flexible curricular frameworks, realities of everyday practice take over. This often leads to teachers self-prescribing the curriculum, thereby making the process self-mandated, which in effect defeats the very purpose of the school-based curriculum development initiative undertaken.