Dissertations / Theses: 'Teachers' discourses'

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Flynn, Judith Margaret. "Teachers' pedagogic discourses around bilingual children : encounters with difference." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/617161/.

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This thesis seeks to open up a professional context in relation to practice around teaching bilingual children to seek further insights for myself and other educational professionals. It can be argued that the only differences between bilingual or monolingual children are those of linguistic and cultural repertoire. Therefore understandings were sought about how these differences were understood within education. This qualitative study loosely adopted a grounded theory approach, involving note taking and observations within a large multi ethnic primary school in the North West of England where the large majority of children were developing their English as an additional language. To gain further insights into the basis of educational practice, six primary school teachers were interviewed in relation to their teaching of bilingual children. The researcher also reflexively engaged with the inquiry throughout so that there was a relational engagement with the data and knowledge construction. The usefulness of Foucauldian insights into power being dispersed and embedded in discourse became evident and this was explored within the teachers’ discourses using generative rather than reductive theorising. It was realised that language was integral to the social construction of any perceived reality around bilingual children. The study became to centre upon discursive contexts and the social, political and historical aspects that were implied. Within these contexts I was able to situate my own professional experience alongside those of the teachers in a critical exploration of practice. The emergence of the themes of invisibility and inaudibility of the languages of bilingual children became evident in the school discourses. Within a further level of poststructural analysis, Ricoeur’s wider and philosophical understandings of language together with Rancière’s insightful link of sensory perception to politics, leads to a new interpretation. This is one that depicts how perceptions of those involved in education may coalesce to avoid genuine linguistic and cultural encounters within school and education. It is suggested that many perceptions are upheld by questionable assumptions. These assumptions include notions such as language separation which are inscribed within narrow curricula with limited educational aims. The thesis concludes by indicating that a broader social acceptance is consequent upon meaningful linguistic and cultural encounters within the school experience, including special educational contexts, which seek to help children to translate (in a philosophical sense) their home and school identities. Innovative use of theory supports a reappraisal of pedagogy around bilingual learners that seeks to reconnect professionals to a research-based pedagogy that perceives children in local, national and international contexts.

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Chan, Anita Kit-wa. "Gendering primary teachers : discourses, practices and identities in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Essex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364552.

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Alharbi, Rabab. "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Discourses in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38172.

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ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed neurobehavioral disorder among children. While ADHD in Western countries has long been recognized and increasingly diagnosed in recent years, there is a growing recognition of this disorder as a significant cross-cultural phenomenon. Saudi studies to date vary in their estimation of prevalence of ADHD, with overall prevalence estimated to be between 3.5% and 6.5%, while the worldwide prevalence of ADHD is 5.29%.This study is a thesis by three articles. The first article examines the representations of ADHD by the Saudi ADHD Society members on Twitter because, as the only charity serving people with ADHD in Saudi Arabia, they have come to define how ADHD is talked about there. The Society’s Twitter account (@adhdarabia) has over 13,500 followers. Tweets posted between December 1st, 2016 and January 31st, 2017 were collected, with those announcing events and retweets from other accounts eliminated. This resulted in 141 tweets discussing the nature, causation, and treatment of ADHD. The content of these tweets was analyzed using Foucauldian discourse analysis. Findings reveal that the Society’s Twitter account shows members constructing ADHD as an experience of suffering; their comments position children with ADHD as sufferers, often subject to additional problems. An alternative discursive construction of ADHD is that caring for a child with ADHD is a ‘different’ kind of responsibility for parents and teachers, who must be advised by ‘experts’. The implications of these discourses are discussed in this paper.The second article uncovers the lived experience of parents with a child who has had an ADHD diagnosis in Saudi Arabia, and examines how their experiences can be understood in relation to the multiple and competing discourses of ADHD that frame their daily lives. Which discourses do parents draw upon – and reinforce – as they describe their experiences of ADHD, and which discourses do they resist? This study carried out in-depth interviews with seven Saudi parents who have at least one child diagnosed with ADHD, or any of its subtypes, between the ages of two and 11. Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) is applied in analyzing parental ADHD discourses, uncovering how these parents made sense of ADHD pre- and post-diagnosis. Four main discourses emerged in the process: ADHD as normal behavior (pre-diagnosis), and ADHD as emerging from supernatural/religious, medical, and social environment contexts (post-diagnosis). This paper also emphasises that the causes of ADHD must be considered in the wider context of misconceptions and uncertainty among Saudi parents. All the participants in this research were influenced by a combination of discourses in their attempts to make sense of their children’s symptoms.The third article explores the discourses drawn upon, reinforced and resisted by six Saudi teachers and four clinicians as they describe their experiences and understanding of ADHD. Saudi clinicians approach ADHD as an extension of American medical views in terms of its causes, diagnosis and treatment. Alarmingly, in light of the shortage of recommended ADHD medications, there are accounts of antipsychotic medications being prescribed for children. Saudi teachers’ views of ADHD were an extension of the medical discourse; this meant that students’ strengths were ignored and the focus was entirely on negative behavioral patterns. Despite a tendency to attribute ADHD to genetics, teachers objectified students who ‘acted out’ as having ADHD or even other disorders (when the child’s behavior or symptoms diverged from their limited understanding of ADHD). Parents who do not comply with teachers’ suggestions are blamed for any lack of improvement in the child’s behavior or academic attainment. Teachers’ accounts also revealed some serious pressures on them as a result of large class sizes and a lack of training in how to teach and manage students with ADHD. These findings have implications for individuals and institutions providing ADHD education to both doctors and teachers, and reinforce calls for researchers to examine ADHD outside of the genetic ‘box’.

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Brooker, Ross Alfred. "Teachers' curriculum discourses in the implementation of a key learning area syllabus /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16493.pdf.

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MENEZES, DANIELLE DE ALMEIDA. "DISCOURSES ON LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: PERCEPTIONS AND PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16092@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A presente tese analisa o discurso de professores universitários de literaturas em língua inglesa, com diferentes perfis profissionais, a fim de: (1) revelar como definem literatura, (2) identificar a função das escolhas linguísticas que caracterizam seu discurso sobre literatura e ensino, e (3) descrever de que maneira constroem discursivamente sua prática. Para tanto, o arcabouço teórico recorre às áreas de Literatura e de Linguística. Na primeira, são discutidas três formas de se abordar o fenômeno literário: o viés artístico (Castro, 1996; Todorov, 2009), o viés psicanalítico (Vygotsky, 1999 [1925]; Eagleton, 1997) e o viés empírico (Schmidt, 1982). Em seguida, é apresentado um breve panorama histórico acerca da complexa organização dos cursos de Letras no ensino superior (Sá Campos, 1987) e discutem-se também questões relacionadas ao ensino de literaturas de língua inglesa no Brasil (Izarra, 1999; Jordão, 2001a; Zyngier, 2003). No âmbito linguístico, recorre-se às noções de linguagem e discurso, em uma perspectiva dialógico-sistêmico-funcional, bem como a uma visão de análise do discurso enquanto atividade multidisciplinar a fim de direcionar a análise de dados (Bakhtin, 1979 [1930]; 2006 [1979]; Chouliardak e Fairclough, 2001; Fairclough, 2001; Halliday e Hasan, 1989; Halliday, 1994). Os dados para a presente pesquisa foram gerados a partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com dez professores de instituições de ensino superior, públicas e privadas, localizadas em diferentes partes da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A partir da adoção de uma abordagem qualitativa e do auxílio de ferramentas da Linguística de Corpus (Biber, Conrad e Reppen, 1998; Oliveira, 2009), a análise dos dados foi desenvolvida em três partes. Na primeira, busca-se categorizar as percepções de literatura apresentadas pelos participantes; na segunda, tendo por base as palavras-chave geradas pelo WordSmith Tools (Scott, 1999) para cada entrevista, são identificadas dimensões que caracterizam o discurso docente; e, na terceira, são discutidas as práticas pedagógicas dos participantes assim como relatadas nas entrevistas. Em relação às visões de literatura, os resultados revelam que os participantes apresentam entendimentos variados, que são aqui agrupados em três macrocategorias principais: identificação, composição e finalidade. A análise das palavras-chave indica que o discurso sobre literatura e ensino dos dez participantes se organiza em cinco dimensões, a saber: ontológica, metodológica, institucional, cognitiva e sócio-histórica, a maior parte das quais tende a privilegiar questões relacionadas ao ensino do que à discussão teórica sobre literatura. Por fim, as práticas pedagógicas reportadas pelos participantes da pesquisa tendem a ser descritas em três diferentes níveis, que vão do autoritarismo e controle ideológico à autonomia discente, incluindo uma atitude intermediária. Em termos da escolha da língua a ser utilizada nas salas de aula de literatura, o estudo revela uma complexa variação entre instituições de ensino públicas e particulares, em que as primeiras são consideradas melhores por alguns participantes. Entre as implicações desse estudo para o conhecimento científico, aponta-se a real necessidade de se investigar questões relacionadas à sala de aula de literatura, seguindo uma tradição já amplamente praticada por professores de língua (cf. Rajagopalan, 2001a; Rajagopalan, 2001b; Grigoletto, 2001; Keys, 2001; Jorge, 2001; Jordão, 2004; Paiva, 2005a; Gieve e Miller, 2006; Miccoli, 2007). Adicionalmente, no campo aplicado, essa tese revela a necessidade latente de fomentar uma abordagem crítico-reflexiva no ensino de literaturas de língua inglesa, que seja capaz de contribuir efetivamente para a formação de indivíduos autônomos.
The present thesis analyzes the discourse of university teachers of literature in English, with different institutional profiles, in order to: (1) uncover how they define literature, (2) identify the function of the linguistic choices which characterize their discourse about literature and teaching, and (3) describe how they discursively build their teaching practice. To this end, the theoretical background resorts to the areas of Literature and Linguistics. As regards the former, three different ways of explaining the literary phenomenon are discussed: the artistic (Castro, 1996; Todorov, 2009), the psychoanalytic (Vygotsky, 1999 [1925]; Eagleton, 1997), and the empirical (Schmidt, 1982). Then, the research goes on to present a brief historical view of the complex organization of language and literature courses in higher-education level (Sá Campos, 1987), and to discuss issues related to the teaching of literature in English in Brazil (Izarra, 1999; Jordão, 2001a; Zyngier, 2003). As far as Linguistics is concerned, the study adopts the notions of language and discourse, from a dialogic and systemicfunctional perspective, as well as the view of discourse analysis as a multidisciplinary activity in order to guide the data analysis (Bakhtin, 1979 [1930]; 2006 [1979]; Chouliardak e Fairclough, 2001; Fairclough, 2001; Halliday e Hasan, 1989; Halliday, 1994). The data for the present research were generated by means of semi-structured interviews with ten university teachers of public and private institutions from different districts in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Adopting a qualitative approach and the support of corpus-linguistic tools (Biber, Conrad e Reppen, 1998; Oliveira, 2009), data analysis was developed in three stages. The first one aims at categorizing the different perceptions of literature expressed by the participants. The second, based on the keywords generated by WordSmith Tools (Scott, 1999) for each interview, identifies the dimensions which characterize these teachers’ discourse. The third stage categorizes and discusses the participants’ pedagogical practices as reported in the interviews. In relation to the views of literature, the results show that the participants have varied understandings of literature, which are grouped here into three main macrocategories: identification, composition and purpose. The keyword analysis indicates that the ten participants’ discourse about literature and teaching varies along five dimensions: ontological, methodological, institutional, cognitive and socio-historical, most of which favor issues associated to teaching rather than to a theoretical discussion on literature. Finally, the pedagogical practices reported by the participants tend to be described into three different levels, which range from authoritarianism and ideological control to student autonomy, allowing for some intermediary stance. In relation to the choice of the language used in literature classes, the study shows that there is a complex variation between public and private higher education institutions. Among the implications of this study to scientific knowledge is the real need to investigate issues related to the literature classroom, following a tradition which is commonly implemented by language teachers (cf. Rajagopalan, 2001a; Rajagopalan, 2001b; Grigoletto, 2001; Keys, 2001; Jorge, 2001; Jordão, 2004; Paiva, 2005a; Gieve e Miller, 2006; Miccoli, 2007). Furthermore, in the applied field, this thesis reveals the latent need to promote a critical and reflective approach to the teaching of literature in English, which will effectively contribute to the education of autonomous individuals.

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Donnison, Sharn, and n/a. "Discourses for the New Millennium: Exploring the Cultural Models of 'Y Generation' Preservice Teachers." Griffith University. School of Education and Professional Studies, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20061012.154401.

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This thesis examines the cultural models and discourses that a group of aspiring, primary school teachers in South-East Queensland employed to explain their current world and describe the likely development of their own careers and lives. Thirteen males and fifty-seven females, aged between 15 and 25, were involved in the study. All participants had expressed an interest in preservice teacher training with 77 percent of the cohort currently enrolled in a teacher-training program in the South-East region of Queensland, Australia. This study adopted a multi-method approach to data collection and included informal interviews, scenario planning workshops, focus groups, and a telephone survey. Initial pilot studies, incorporating informal interviews, preceded scenario planning workshops. Four males and eleven females were involved in six scenario planning groups. The scenario planning format, based upon Schwartz (1991), followed a seven-step approach whereby participants formulated and evaluated four possible future scenarios for Australia. These formed the stimulus material for the second stage of the study where thirteen focus groups critically analysed the scenario planning data. Interpretation of the data was underpinned by a framework based on an amalgamation of Gee's (1999) theoretical concepts of acts of meaning, cultural models, and Discourses and Bernstein's (1996) theoretical concepts of classification, framing, and realisation and recognition rules. The respondents exhibited five pre-eminent Discourses. These were a Technologies Discourse, Educational Discourse, Success Discourse, Voyeuristic Discourse, and an Oppositional Discourse. The group's Technologies Discourse was pervasive and influenced their future predictions for Australian society, themselves, and education and was expressed in both positive and negative terms. The respondents spoke of their current and future relationship to technologies in positive terms while they spoke of society's future relationship to technologies in negative terms. Their reactions to technologies were appropriated from two specific cultural resources. In the first instance this appears to be from their personal positive interactions with technologies. In the second instance the group have drawn from Science Fiction Discourses to predict malevolent and controlling technologies of the future. The respondents' Technologies Discourse is also evident in their Educational Discourse. They predict that their future classrooms will be more technological and that they, as teaching professionals, will be technologically literate and proficient. Their past experiences with education and schooling systems has also influenced their Educational Discourse and led them to assume, paradoxically, that while the process of education is and will continue to be a force for change, schools will not evidence a great deal of change in the coming years. The respondents were optimistic and confident about themselves, their current interactions with technologies, their future lives, and their future careers. These dispositions formed part of their Success Discourse and manifested as heroism, idealism, and a belief in utopian personal futures. The respondents' Voyeuristic Discourse assumed limited social engagement and a limited ability to accept responsibility for the past, present, and future. The respondents had adopted an 'onlooker' approach to society. This aspect of their Discourse appeared to be mutable and showed signs of tempering as the respondents matured and became more involved in their teaching careers. Finally, the respondents' Oppositional Discourse clearly delineated between themselves and 'others'. They were users of technologies, teachers, good people, young, privileged, white, Australian, and urban dwelling while 'others' were controllers of technologies, learners, bad people, older or younger, non-privileged, non-Australian, and country dwelling. Current reforms introduced by Education Queensland have stressed the need for a new approach to new times, new economies, and new workplaces. This involves having a capacity to envisage new forms, new structures, and new relationships. 'New times' teaching professionals are change agents who are socially critical, socially responsible, risk takers, able to negotiate a constantly changing knowledge-rich society, flexible, creative, innovative, reflexive, and collaborative (Sachs, 2003). The respondents in this study did not appear to be change agents or future activist teaching professionals (Sachs, 2003). Rather, they were inclined towards reproducing historical, traditional, and conservative social and professional roles as well as practices, and maintaining a safe distance from social and environmental responsibility. Essentially, the group had responded to a period of rapid social and cultural change by placing themselves outside of change forces. Successful educational reform and implementation, such as that being proposed by Education Queensland (2000), demands that all interested stakeholders share a common vision (Fullan, 1993). The respondents' Discourses indicated that they did not exhibit a futures vision beyond their immediate selves. This limited vision was at odds with that being espoused by Education Queensland (2000). This body recognises the importance of being able to envisage, develop, and sustain preferable futures visions and have developed futures oriented curricula with this in mind. Such curricula are said to respond to the changing needs of today's and tomorrow's society by having problem solving and the concept of lifelong learning at the core. The future towards which the respondents aspire is one where lifelong learning and problem solving have little significance beyond their need to stay current with evolving technologies. In reflecting on the respondents' viewpoints and the range of Discourses that they draw upon to accommodate their changing world, I propose a number of recommendations for policy makers and educators. It is recommended that preservice teacher training institutions take up the challenge of equipping future teachers with the skills, knowledges, and dispositions needed to be responsible, reflective, and proactive educators who are able to envisage and work towards preferable visions of schooling and society. Ideally, this could occur through mandatory Futures Studies courses. Currently, Futures Studies courses are not seen as an essential area of study within education degrees and as such preservice teachers are given little opportunity to engage with futures concepts, knowledges, or skills. The success of the scenario planning approach in this thesis and the richness of the issues raised through interactive engagement in imagining possible futures, suggests that all citizens, but particularly teachers, need to enlighten their imaginations more often through such processes.

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Chappell, Clive. "The policies and discourses of vocational education and training and their impact on the information of teacher's identities /." Electronic version, 1999. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20041011.162445/index.html.

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Lightman, Timohty. "Power/knowledge in an age of reform| General education teachers and discourses of disability." Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3666801.

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In this qualitative study, comprised of interviews and observations, I explore how discourses of disability circulating within the epistemologies and practices of four general education teachers at two different public elementary schools. Utilizing a Foucauldian lens, I am particularly interested in how these teachers responded to the power/knowledge claims asserted through the dominant medicalized discourse of disability institutionally employed and deployed through special education and the public school system writ large. Moreover, I have looked for acts of resistance, or in the parlance of Foucault (1983), "modes of action," recognizing that the formation of resistance is both a precondition and consequence of the exercising of power, and that power is the medium through which social change occurs.

In one of the schools, Taft, I encountered a school culture in which the institutional and discursive authority of special education and a medicalized discourse appeared deeply entrenched in the school culture encasing teachers, administrators and children within a network of power relations. This network discursively produced children identified with disabilities as unable to learn in general education classrooms, and general education teachers as unable to teach all children. Within this environment, opportunities for interrogation and resistance were nullified. In the other school, Bedford, I encountered a school culture in which the institutional and discursive authority of special education and a medicalized discourse appeared diminished, absent the institutional authority of special education. In its stead, appeared an internal bureaucratic discourse of assessment and accountability, concerned primarily with issues of compliance. With instruction and classroom management discursively organized, teachers were produced as officers of compliance, mobilized as agents in the discursive production of docile and compliant children.

Yet, with a weak administration and in the absence of an institutionalized special education apparatus within the school, I posit that at Bedford a localized alternative discourse circulated within the school, and that opportunities for interrogation and resistance arose in particular classrooms, with particular teachers, and in particular moments of time. However, despite an apparent disassociation from a medicalized discourse at Bedford, escaping the underlying assumptions of the medicalized discourse proved unreachable, if not impossible, and it continued to shape classroom teachers, and their notions of disability and inclusion as well as their perceptions and interactions with special education.

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Omar, Yunus. "Discourses of professionalism and the production of teachers' professional identity in the South African Council for Educators (SACE) Act of 2000 : a discourse analysis." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7410.

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Includes bibliography.
This study seeks to identify discourses of professionalism and the production of Teachers' professional identity in the South African Council for Educators (SACE) Act of 2000. These identiﬁes are located in the context of their social impact on, and in the actualisalion of the political roles of teachers in post-apartheid South Africa. Central to the study is the conceptualisation that discourses coiistruct identities. The research methodology is derived from Ian Parker's approach to discourse analysis, which is premised to an extent on post-structruralist thought. The author summarises Parker's 'steps' to effect a discourse analysis, and constructs a set of ﬁve analytic tools with which no analyse the SACE Act of2000. The study's main ﬁnding is that two discursive frames constitute the roles of the post-apartheid teacher in South Africa. The ﬁrst is a bureaucratic discourse of marketisation that deﬁnes a role for teachers in preparing students for participation in a global market economy. A second discourse which is identiﬁed in the study is a democratic professional discourse, which delineates a critical, independent professional role for teachers. The study suggests that the two teacher identities are in tension. The two identities are complex and are simultaneously constructed and actualised.

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Galitis, Ingrid. "A case study of gifted education in an Australian primary school : teacher attitudes, professional discourses and gender /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/5260.

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This thesis investigates the professional knowledge and views about gifted education held by teachers working in a suburban primary school in Melbourne, Australia. Examining discourses of giftedness and intelligence, it adopts a case study approach to explore teachers’ gendered understanding of these concepts four years after they undertook a program of professional development in gifted education during the late 1990s. The analysis of the case study is located in relation to historical as well as current policy and professional debates regarding the education of gifted children, and the context of broader contemporary educational reforms. During the 1990s, much educational reform in Australia, as elsewhere, was characterised by neo-liberal practices of devolution, and a greater emphasis on individual accountability that altered school management structures and directed curriculum practices towards a focus on outcomes-based education. The increasing scrutiny of teaching and learning became normalised as both teachers and students were regularly monitored and measured. Within the prevailing political and educational landscape, Victoria’s first gifted education policy was introduced in May 1995.
The study examined how teachers negotiated educational reforms and policy initiatives during a time of significant change and translated them into their own professional common sense and working knowledge. A qualitative methodology is adopted, and the research design encompasses close analysis of teachers’ narratives and content analysis of school policies and programs as well as informal and formal documentation and reports. Examination of the case study material is informed by a feminist approach and concern with practices of gender differentiation and inequality in education; the analysis is also influenced by key poststructuralist concepts of “discourses”, “regimes of truth” and “normalisation” drawn from the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Three main lines of analysis are developed. First, I examine current meanings of, and discourses on, gifted education and their historical antecedents. I argue that gifted education practices emanate from modernist practices and that the constructs of intelligence and giftedness were enthusiastically adopted as technological tools to regulate and classify populations. I further argue that understanding these earlier views on intelligence and the “gifted child” remains important as these continue, often unwittingly, to infiltrate and shape teachers’ attitudes and knowledge, as well as the “regimes of truth” expressed in policy and professional discourses. Second, I propose that a deeply entrenched Australian egalitarian ethos has affected teachers’ views and practices, influencing how they navigate the field of gifted education, typically characterised as an elite form of educational provision. In some cases, this produces ambivalence about the value of gifted education, leading to educational practices that are at odds with gifted educational practices recommended by research. I argue that the program of gifted professional development did not alter deeply entrenched beliefs about gifted education, with teachers claiming personal experience and working knowledge as the crux to recognising and catering for difference. Third, I examine the socially gendered dimensions of these entrenched views and their impact on highly able girls. I argue that for teachers, the norm of the gifted child is gendered. Whilst girls can be bright or clever or smart, the idealised gifted child is more likely to be male.
This thesis offers an in-depth examination of the micro-practices of one school as it strives for excellence. It contributes insights into the impact of “topdown” policy and professional development on teachers’ working knowledge and professional practice. This study shows that while the imposed educational policies and gifted education programs provided information for teachers, they did not alter teachers’ fundamental belief systems, professional knowledge or gender differentiating teaching practices.

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Wood, Rosemary Jane. "Community-clinical psychological consultation with teachers in an "African" lower primary school : discourses and future directions." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14401.

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Biliography: leaves 76-79.
Following the action research tradition, a series of four workshops was conducted with 14 - 20 teachers at Songeze Lower Primary School in Guguletu. The workshops were in response to a preceding 'fact-finding' study as to the teachers' perceptions and attributions regarding common emotional and behavioural problems of pupils at their school. This pilot study arose from debate about the relevance of psychological practice in the South African context and in an attempt to identify feasible means of extending the services of the University of Cape Town's Child Guidance Clinic to "oppressed communities" in the Cape Peninsula. It was hypothesized that workshops would be a resource-efficient means of triadic, community - clinical consultation. This workshop series was negotiated with the teachers and comprised: 'Problem Identification and Assessment', 'Discipline', 'Listening Skills' and 'Referral Resources and Group Consultation'. During each workshop, didactic input was supported with hand-outs while large group discussion and problem solving was also stimulated. The last three workshops were quantitatively evaluated by the teachers and in a fifth meeting their qualitative feedback was elicited. An important variable in the above study involved its having been conducted by two researchers, one being "black" and the author being "white". Issues of language barriers, credibility, trust and differing perceptions and expectations between researchers and the participant teachers complicated the workshop process. The teachers' differential responses to the researchers, based on their 'colour', resulted in each experiencing and interpreting their role and relevance differently. It was found that the teachers' most pressing needs concern basic teaching skills and that clinical psychologists have a relatively minor contribution to make via simple, directive input along behaviour modification principles. Workshops were not found to be an optimal mode of intervention. It is suggested that inter-disciplinary team consultation, with clinical psychology interns playing a role in psychological and psychometric assessment and providing workshops on topics such as Discipline may be a more appropriate means of extending the Child Guidance Clinic's services to schools in the Guguletu community. A strong recommendation is made that the study of an "African" language be included in the Clinical Psychology training program. A further suggestion of exploring the need for, and feasibility of, interns conducting teacher support groups is also forwarded.

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Sangar, Maninder Kaur. "Mental health and Shame : a Foucauldian analysis of the discourses of South Asian girls and their teachers." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8634/.

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Dominant discourses construct South Asian girls and women as having a high risk of internalised problems such as depression and anxiety. Existing literature suggests that services for mental distress are under-utilised by South Asian women with the construct ‘Shame’ cited as a potential barrier to help-seeking. Little research has examined how South Asian girls construct ‘Shame’ and ‘Mental Health’ and how these constructions relate to help-seeking. This study explores discourses of ‘Mental Health’ and ‘Shame’ through the talk of South Asian girls and their teachers. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (Willig, 2008) is employed to analyse semi-structured interview data from seven girls and five teachers. This research specifically explores how South Asian girls are positioned within the discourses of ‘Shame’ and ‘Mental Health’ and how they “open up” or “close down” opportunities for help-seeking. The analysis highlights that discourses of Mental Health are complex, contradictory and tied to prevailing discourses of abnormality and the medicalisation of mental distress. Pupil and teacher discourses surfaced contemporary understandings of Mental Health as a universal and dynamic state, demonstrating a shift in discourse. Similarly, ‘Shame’ was constructed as oppressive, sexist and regulatory as well as helpful and protective. These constructions have implications for educational psychology practice.

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Tushabomwe, Annette. "Sexuality education within high school curriculum in Uganda : exploring teachers’ perceptions of contextual influences on classroom discourses." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51005.

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This case study investigated teachers’ perceptions of contextual influences on their instruction and student engagement on sexuality discourses within four selected schools in Kampala, Uganda. The question that guided the study was: What and how are the contextual factors as perceived by health education teachers in Uganda influencing classroom discourses on sexuality? The research is grounded within two relevant theoretical frameworks; constructivism and the conceptual change theory (CCT). Constructivism acknowledges that individuals have preconceived notions rooted in their social, cultural and historical backgrounds, and CCT enables teachers to develop strategies that allow learners opportunities to reexamine their preconceptions about phenomena with a view of aligning them with canonical science. Through a narrative methodological approach, teachers narrated their stories based on their lived classroom experiences. Data sources included researcher’s field notes, e-mail correspondences, semi-structured questionnaires, and audio recordings of the teachers’ narratives. The data corpus was analyzed following intense dialogic analysis procedures, which encompassed elements of thematic and structural analytical methods as well as other broad interpretive dimensions such as how talk among speakers is dialogically produced. The findings revealed that while there is some form of sexuality education in schools and while teachers are very enthusiastic about its implementation, it is largely constrained by a plethora of contextual factors. Four themes that best addressed the inquiry were identified: 1) Dilemmas around navigating conflicting social stances; 2) Competing dichotomies with regards to adolescent sex health provision; 3) Teachers’ inadequate training to play the envisioned roles as sexuality educators; and 4) Relegation of Sex Health Education (SHE) to extracurricular status undermines its value and potential. The teachers therefore have a steep task to continue searching for appropriate pedagogical approaches to diffuse these dilemmas. This thesis provides a nuanced approach to understanding the practical realities and complexities involved in designing a framework for SHE delivery in schools, and also suggests various approaches teachers can employ to bring about meaningful learning.
Education, Faculty of
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Warren, Alison Margaret. "Negotiations of personal professional identities by newly qualified early childhood teachers through facilitated self-study." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Maori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7016.

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Early childhood teachers spend their professional lives in social interactions with children, families and colleagues. Social interactions shape how people understand themselves and each other through discourses. Teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand negotiate their subjectivities, or self-understandings, within initial teacher education (ITE), professional expectations, education and society. They are shaped by historical and contemporary discourses of early childhood teaching professionalism as they gain status as qualified and registered teachers. Early childhood teachers’ understandings of their personal professional identities influence self-understandings of everyone they encounter professionally, especially young children. This poststructural qualitative collective case study investigates five newly-qualified early childhood teachers’ negotiations of their personal professional identities. My research study is based in postmodern understandings of identities as multiple, complex and dynamic, and subjectivities as self-understandings formed within discourses. In contrast, institutionally-directed reflective writing in early childhood ITE can reflect modernist perspectives that assume essentialist, knowable identities. Tensions exist between my postmodern theoretical framework and my data collection strategy of facilitated self-study, an approach that is usually based on the modernist assumption that there is a self to investigate and know. My participants explored their subjectivities through focus group discussions, individual interviews, and reflective writing, including institutionally-directed reflective writing. Three dominant discourses of early childhood education emerged from data analysis that drew on Foucault’s theoretical ideas: the authority discourse, the relational professionalism discourse and the identity work discourse. Positioned in these discourses, all participants regarded themselves as qualified and knowledgeable, skilled at professional relationships and as reflective practitioners. They actively negotiated tensions between professional expectations and understandings of their multiple, complex and changing identities. I concluded that these participants negotiated understandings of their personal professional identities within three dominant discourses through discursive practices of discipline and governmentality, seeking pleasurable subject positions, and agentic negotiation of tensions and contradictions between available subjectivities.

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Adie, Lenore Ellen, and l. adie@optusnet com au. "Operationalizing Queenslands Smart State policy through teachers work: An analysis of discourses in a Central Queensland school." Central Queensland University, 2007. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20070525.085011.

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The notion of Queensland as a Smart State is the Queensland Beattie Governments response to global conditions that require a new type of worker and citizen for a new knowledge economy. The role of education in the success of the Smart State is clearly outlined in the Queensland Governments vision statements and policies, identifying teachers as a key factor in the production of this new type of worker and citizen. In this study I explore the relationship between Queenslands Smart State policy and the daily practices of teachers as they are implicated in the building of a Smart State. The study takes place during what is unquestionably the largest and most comprehensive reform effort to be imposed on Queensland schools and teachers, under the auspices of a Smart State. The research includes policy analysis of two key Smart State documents, and fieldwork involving semi-structured interviews, observations and artefact collection of the work of two primary school teachers. Using Faircloughs theories regarding the relationship between discourse and social change, it is possible to show how changes occurring in contemporary organisations are related to changes in discourse, in particular, those surrounding the discourses of a knowledge economy or globalisation. The Smart State is conceptualised in this study as regimes of discourses that may produce new practices and new ways of acting and being (Fairclough, 2001a). The interdiscursive, linguistic and semiotic strategies used in Smart State policy are analysed to show how this discourse is emerging into a hegemonic position, while identifying the dominant discourses reiterated in the policy as necessary skills for a new type of worker. These discourses are mapped onto those identified through the fieldwork of teachers daily work practices to determine if Smart State discourses are becoming apparent in teachers work. This study is significant because it makes visible the current relationship between the discourses of the Smart State and teachers daily work. In this current climate of rapid change and economic survival it is important that the operationalization of a Smart State can be attributed to teachers work as new ways of acting and interacting become a part of their daily practices.

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Barbosa, Perla De Oliveira. "Prospective Teachers Dismantling Anti-Bilingual Hegemonic Discourses| Exploring a Pedagogy of Participatory Possibilities for "Political Clarity" and "Political Agency"." Thesis, New Mexico State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10985660.

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The public education system in the U.S. has been under assault with the latest neoliberal education reforms. Those reforms are characterized by their antidemocratic and homogenizing assessment system, which reinforces a banking model of education. Such model goes against teachers and teaching, linguistic and cultural diversity and bilingual education. In order to countervail this reality, this research urged pre-service teachers in a Foundations of Bilingual Education/ ESL college coursework to engage in a problem-posing and emancipatory pedagogy. The main purpose was for them to nurture and enhance political clarity and political agency in issues of bilingual and ESL education. Students not only engaged in dismantling hegemonic discourses in bilingual and ESL education in the U.S., but also went through an epistemological break when the teacher-researcher invited students to become co-researchers in order to co-construct the curriculum and pedagogical realities. Readings, journals, personal narratives, dialogue and theater of the oppressed became the vehicles for engagement. The transformative process of the teacher-researcher and co-researchers occurred when they deliberately transitioned from a pedagogy that promotes passive citizens to a pedagogy that promotes collective emancipation. The research paradigm that aligned with those experiences was Participatory Action Research (PAR). Central to PAR is radical participatory democracy. Through self-collective development and reliance, participants transform themselves and find alternatives to defeat injustices. Pre-service and in-service teachers and teacher education can benefit from the following results: (1) the transformative effect of a dialogic research (2) the lessons the teacher-researcher learned (3) how theater of the oppressed could have been central to the vivencia, instead it was supplementary and still the door for infinite possibilities (4) the viability of PAR as a vivencia embedded in undergraduate education major and (5) the extraordinary case of Sofia's (co-researcher) ongoing advocacy.

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Aldrich, Debora Lynn Hill. "Heteroglossia and persuasive discourses for student writers and teachers: Intersections between out-of-school writing and the teaching of English." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5405.

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Research studies have investigated issues in the teaching of writing, particularly at the elementary and university levels. Studies of out-of-school writing done by adolescents have focused on digital contexts and social media. This study examines the intersections of the out-of-school and in-school writing worlds of three high school writers: a poet, a novelist, and a contest essay writer. I use data gathered over seven years from the student writers and four of their English language arts teachers. Research questions focused on how notions of student writers and the teaching of high school English might be informed by the ways student writers described their out-of-class writing and motivation for writing, how their teachers developed and implemented their philosophies and practices in teaching writing, and how the student writers developed their internally persuasive discourses about writing. In analyzing case study data to answer these questions, I used constant comparison analysis and narrative inquiry analysis, drawing upon theories of heteroglossic discourses, figured worlds, and writing identity. My findings show that in the intersections of out-of-school and in-school writing experiences, students select some writing practices and discourses from their teachers to adopt or adapt, such as developing writing processes, participating in writing communities, and caring about writing. They complicate their definitions of writing, however, as they create figured worlds of writing in which they explore identity, navigate and negotiate complex emotions, and receive recognition. The students illustrate their dialogism with writing discourses in stories of improvisation in which they find power and enact resistance. I argue that writing teachers need encouragement, education, and agency to entertain more complex perceptions of student writers and teaching writing to support students for future personal, academic, career, and public discourse worlds.

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Dias, Gabriela Bernardes Makishi. "O \"bom professor\": entre o possível e o necessário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-19102015-103755/.

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Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo estudar as características reconhecidas como sendo positivas em professores, de acordo com a visão de alunos e professores. Como instrumento de coleta de dados, foram aplicados questionários com uma pergunta aberta respondido por alunos do 5o ano do Ensino Fundamental, além de uma série de entrevistas com professores selecionados de duas escolas públicas. A pesquisa foi baseada no estudo das diversas facetas da atuação do professor em sala de aula (tanto em aspectos comportamentais quanto de atuação), estabelecendo divergências e similaridades nas opiniões defendidas por educandos e educadores. O intuito é dar insumos para entender melhor aspectos da visão que predomina sobre a figura do professor e suas representações na contemporaneidade.
This research had the objective to study the recognized positive characteristics on teachers, according to the students and teachers view. As a data collection tool, questionnaires with an open question answered by students in the fifth grade of elementary schools were applied, as well as a series of interviews with selected teachers from two public schools. The research was based on the study of the various facets of teacher performance in the classroom, taking consideration themselves in behavioral and performance aspects, establishing differences and similarities in the views expressed by students and educators. The intention is to give inputs to better understand aspects of view that predominates over the figure of the teacher and their representations in contemporary times.

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Sjölund, Simon. "These are the reasons we teach math : A study of teachers' cultural repertoire of discourses about the purposes of mathematics education." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för matematikämnets och naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-160723.

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Davids, Mogamat Noor. "An understanding of HIV and AIDS discourses of teachers in Cape Town, South Africa, and its' relevance for HIV prevention in schools." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1933.

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This study investigates the content and nature of the HIV and AIDS "discourses" of teachers, which I have identified as a knowledge gap in the existing HIV and AIDS education literature that, presumably, is informing practice. The argument is that, without an understanding of teachers' HIV and AIDS discourses, we will continue to speculate about why HIV education often does not have the effect we expect of it - reduced HIV infection, reduced risk behaviour, reduced teenage pregnancies - and why it has been regarded as a failure by many. The public media often expose rampant teenage sexual behaviour, such as abortions, pregnancies, and an addiction for electronically generated pornographic materials, causing consternation and sending shockwaves through schools and society. These reports attest to the kind of risky sexual behavior which makes children vulnerable to HIV infection. In spite of more than twenty years of HIV and AIDS education, teachers and society at large remain uncertain and uncomfortable about teenage sexual behavior, HIV infection and the inability of adults to protect young people from sexual exploitation.
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Brar, Bikram S. "The educational and occupational aspirations of young Sikh adults. An ethnographic study of the discourses and narratives of parents, teachers and adults in one London school." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5744.

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This research study explores how future educational and occupational aspirations are constructed by young Sikh adults. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten young Sikh adults, both their parents, and their teachers at one school in West London to investigate how future aspirations are constructed, which resources are employed, and why certain resources are used over others. In some previous research on aspirations and future choices, Sikhs have either been ignored or, instead, subsumed under the umbrella category of ¿Asian¿ and this study seeks to address this. Furthermore, the study seeks to shed light on how British-Sikh identities are constructed and intersected by social class, caste and gender. This is important to explore since it can have an impact upon how young adults are structured by educational policy. A ¿syncretic¿ social constructionist framework which predominantly draws upon Pierre Bourdieu¿s notions of habitus, capital and field, along with the cultural identity theories of Avtar Brah and Stuart Hall, is employed to investigate the construction of identities and aspirations. In addition, the study contains ethnographical elements as it is conducted on my ¿own¿ Sikh group and at my former secondary school. Consequently, I brought a set of assumptions to the research which, rather than disregard, I acknowledge since they highlight how I come to form certain interpretations of phenomena over others.

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Brar, Bikram Singh. "The educational and occupational aspirations of young Sikh adults : an ethnographic study of the discourses and narratives of parents, teachers and adults in one London school." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5744.

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This research study explores how future educational and occupational aspirations are constructed by young Sikh adults. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten young Sikh adults, both their parents, and their teachers at one school in West London to investigate how future aspirations are constructed, which resources are employed, and why certain resources are used over others. In some previous research on aspirations and future choices, Sikhs have either been ignored or, instead, subsumed under the umbrella category of 'Asian' and this study seeks to address this. Furthermore, the study seeks to shed light on how British-Sikh identities are constructed and intersected by social class, caste and gender. This is important to explore since it can have an impact upon how young adults are structured by educational policy. A 'syncretic' social constructionist framework which predominantly draws upon Pierre Bourdieu's notions of habitus, capital and field, along with the cultural identity theories of Avtar Brah and Stuart Hall, is employed to investigate the construction of identities and aspirations. In addition, the study contains ethnographical elements as it is conducted on my 'own' Sikh group and at my former secondary school. Consequently, I brought a set of assumptions to the research which, rather than disregard, I acknowledge since they highlight how I come to form certain interpretations of phenomena over others.

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Ortiz-Marrero, Floris Wilma. "Teacher Inquiry Group: The Space for (Un)packing Representations of Discourses of Achievement Gap and the Possibility of an Institutional Transforming Practice." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/64/.

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Shaw, Susan Angela. "An analysis of the discourses and discursive devices used to represent learning disability in the stories told in the classroom to students by learning disability nurse teachers." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2007. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/373/.

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This study explores the complexities of the social construction of learning disability. The focus is upon the ways in which learning disability nurse teachers represent their experiences of learning disability nurse practice in stories. The stories focussed upon in this study were identified in a series of 20 audio taped teaching sessions with student learning disability nurses. The research investigations centred upon the learning disability constructions in some 30 stories and were also supported by 5 subsequent interviews with the teachers and observations of 7 teaching sessions. The findings highlight some interesting ideas about the social construction of learning disability by nurse educators and also the personal tensions expressed by learning disability nurses trained in the past but faced with the dominant discourses of today. As a qualitative study, this research drew upon the ideas of social construction and competing discourses most commonly associated with Michael Foucault in his works Discipline and Punish and Madness and Civilisation. In particular the stories were investigated for the influences of medicalising and professionalising discourses which construct people with learning disability as powerless and the learning disability nurse with the power to control. The investigations began with a form of Foucauldian discourse analysis which was used to examine the transcribed storied material, interviews and observations. Following initial engagement the investigations also developed with the aid of discourse analysis more heavily influenced by the discursive psychology of Potter and Wetherell (2004). Both forms of discourse analysis assisted the investigation of the many ways or modes in which learning disability was constructed by nurse teachers.

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Yanda, Carina. "Fluency in narrative discourse in teacher education." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654493251&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Steers, van Hamel Debra. "Rethinking mentor roles and relationships an exploration of discourse communities and beginning teacher identity /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3139158.

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Mitchell, Jane, and n/a. "Negotiating the practice of teaching : a study of evaluative discourse between student teachers and their associates." University of Canberra. Education, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061018.141211.

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The central question in this thesis is How do participants in the practicum interact in order to evaluate teaching practice? This question has been posed for several reasons: 1. The practicum is a crucial part of teacher education and teacher socialisation; 2. Little is known about the nature of student teacher learning during the practicum; 3. Much of what happens during practicum interactions is taken for granted, and needs to be made explicit in order to fully understand how student teachers learn and what it is important for them to know. In order to investigate this question this study examines the interactions between student teachers and their supervising teachers in post lesson conferences. These conferences are a site in which practicum participants evaluate teaching practice and in which values, beliefs and knowledge about teaching in the context of the classroom and the practicum are produced and reproduced. To obtain data on the ways in which participants interact in post lesson conferences tape recordings of conferences and interviews with participants have been collected and analysed. Three quite different cases are presented to show a spectrum of evaluative styles and interactions. In each case the language of the post lesson conferences is explored. A particular concern in the thesis has been to consider the ways in which the linguistic choices of the participants express their subjectivities as well as reflect the cultural and institutional context in which the post lesson conferences were located. In order to achieve this the study draws upon theoretical perspectives concerned with social practice, language and meaning. Fundamental to any evaluative interaction is its purpose, the relationship between the participants and the construction of the evaluative criteria. This study has sought to identify those routines that are a common part of and that underpin the purpose of evaluative interactions in post lesson conferences. By considering the differences between the interactions in each case, this research concludes that the degree of symmetry in the participants' evaluative relationship and the extent to which the evaluative criteria are made explicit are critical to the authority that student teachers have to negotiate their understandings, reflect on their practice and take responsibility for their own learning. The three cases provide a dynamic account of the evaluative process, and a more comprehensive account than has hitherto been provided in much of the literature. They also generate suggestions for future research in this important area of teacher education.

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Rosa, Russel Teresinha Dutra da. "Formação inicial de professores : análise da prática de ensino em Biologia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/11065.

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A presente tese foi desenvolvida na Linha de Pesquisa “O sujeito da Educação: conhecimento, linguagem e contextos”, na temática Sociologia e Educação, vinculada ao Projeto de Pesquisa “Perspectivas de Ensino na Educação Básica: prática pedagógica e formação de professores”, coordenado pela professora doutora Maria Helena Degani Veit. Na tese é examinada a prática pedagógica de 30 estagiários matriculados na disciplina de Prática de Ensino em Biologia do curso de Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul no ano de 2005. O estudo desenvolveu os seguintes tópicos: 1) interpretação dos significados de conflitos de papéis que perpassam o ingresso dos licenciandos na carreira docente; 2) caracterização das práticas pedagógicas dos estagiários planejadas com o objetivo de favorecer a aprendizagem de conhecimentos biológicos pelos alunos do Ensino Médio;2.1) análise de discursos e de modalidades de conhecimentos que constituem a Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas e que são mobilizados quando da recontextualização dos conteúdos biológicos para o Nível Médio e2.2) caracterização do discurso regulador empregado pelos estagiários no contexto de escolas da rede pública de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. A pesquisa participante, em uma abordagem quali-quantitativa, foi realizada pela professora da disciplina de Prática de Ensino em Biologia, utilizando, como referencial teórico-metodológico, a perspectiva sociológica de Basil Bernstein, complementada por conceituação da Fenomenologia Social e do Interacionismo Simbólico. Os resultados do estudo confirmaram os achados de Morais (2002a, 2002b) e de pesquisadoras associadas que, apoiadas em Bernstein, caracterizaram as modalidades de práticas pedagógicas mais produtivas em contextos de formação de professores e de ensino de alunos da Educação Básica pertencentes a famílias de baixa renda. As autoras designaram tais práticas como pedagogias mistas, as quais apresentam enquadramentos fortes nas dimensões seleção e seqüência de conteúdos, em nível macro, e avaliação, e apresentam enquadramentos fracos nas dimensões seleção e seqüência de conteúdos, em nível micro, ritmagem e regras hierárquicas. A tese complementa a caracterização das pedagogias mistas e descreve as formas da prática pedagógica que tornam disponíveis aos adquirentes regras de reconhecimento e de realização de textos, isto é, práticas legítimas no contexto educacional.A investigação também possibilitou a interpretação dos significados das interações entre transmissores e adquirentes, enfocando estratégias e discursos que buscam resgatar valores nucleares da sociedade ocidental.
This doctoral dissertation was developed within the Research Line “The Subject of Education: Knowledge, Language and Contexts” and the theme of Sociology and Education, which is connected to the Research Project, “Teaching Perspectives in Basic Education: Pedagogical Practice and Teacher Training”, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Maria Helena Degani Veit. The dissertation discusses the pedagogical practice of 30 student teachers enrolled in 2005 in a course on Teaching Practice in Biology, which is part of the Teacher Training Program in Biological Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The study developed the following topics: 1) interpretation of the meanings of the role-related conflicts involved in the students’ entry into the teaching career; 2) characterization of the student teachers’ pedagogical practices designed to foster the learning of biology by high school students; 2.1) analysis of discourses and modes of knowledge that constitute the Teacher Training Program in Biological Science and are mobilized duringthe “recontextualization” of the contents of Biology for the level of secondary education, as well as 2.2) characterization of the “regulative discourse” employed by the student teachers in the context of public schools in Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The participatory research, which adopted a qualitative-quantitative approach, was conducted by the professor of the course on Teaching Practice in Biology. It used Basil Bernstein’s sociological perspective as its theoretical-methodological frame of reference, supplementing it with concepts taken from Social Phenomenology and Symbolic Interactionism. The results of the study confirmed the findings by Morais et al. (2002, 2003), who, based on Bernstein, characterized the most productive modes of pedagogical practice in the contexts of teacher training and of teaching to basic education students who come from low income families. Morais et al. called such practices “mixed pedagogies,” as they exhibit “strong framings” in the dimensions of “selection” and “sequence” of contents at the macro level, as well as “evaluation,” and “weak framings” in the dimensions of “selection” and “sequence” of contents at the micro level, besides “pacing” and “hierarchical rules.”The dissertation supplements the characterization of the “mixed pedagogies” and describes the forms of “pedagogical practice” that makeavailable to the acquirers “rules of recognition” and “rules of realization” of texts, that is, legitimate practices in the context of education. The investigation also made it possible to interpret the meanings of the interactions between transmitters and acquirers, focusing on strategies and discourses that try to retrieve core values of Western society.

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Alexandersson, Alexandra. "Från E till A i samma text : Hur sju svensklärares och fem svensklärarstudenters bedömning av en elevtext varierar i helhet och detalj." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60187.

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The aim of the study was to investigate how Swedish teachers and student teachers of Swedish vary in their assessment of a pupil’s text, in judging both the text as a whole and its parts. In the study the informants were asked to assess a pupil’s text (a text presenting an argument) from the national examination in Swedish 1 with the aid of an assessment matrix and then complete a questionnaire assessing the text as a whole and in its parts. The responses to the questionnaire were analysed statistically with a focus on how the assessments varied. A sociocultural and situated perspective was applied in the study, along with psychometry and the theory of discourses of writing, to give more perspectives on the results. The study found that the assessments varied between grades C and A for the text as a whole and between E and A for the aspects of argumentation, content and critical reading, contextual signals and reference connectors, introduction, conclusion, situational adaptation and self-sustaining. The study also found that the student teachers were generally stricter in their assessment. The greatest variations in the student teachers’ assessment were found to concern aspects of the communication discourse, while in the teachers’ assessment it was aspects of the construction discourse that revealed the greatest variation. The greatest difference between the two groups concerned aspects of the correction discourse.

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Pickford, Steven, and steven pickford@deakin edu au. "Community school teacher education and the construction of pedagogical discourse in Papua New Guinea." Deakin University. School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education, 1999. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20061207.133309.

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Pedagogical discourse in Papua New Guinea (PNG) community schooling is mediated by a western styles education. The daily administration and organisation of school activity, graded teaching and learning, subject selection, content boundaries, teaching and assessment methods are all patterned after western schooling. This educational settlement is part of a legacy of German, British and Australian government and non-government colonialism that officially came to an end in 1975. Given the colonial heritage of schooling in PNG, this study is interested in exploring particular aspects of the degree of mutuality between local discourses and the discourses of a western styled pedagogy in post-colonial times, for the purpose of better informing community school teacher education practices. This research takes place at and in the vicinity of Madang Teachers College, a pre-service community school teachers college on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The research was carried out in the context of the researchers employment as a contract lecturer in the English language Department between 1991-1993. As an in-situ study it was influenced by the roles of different participants and the circumstances in which data was gathered and constituted, data which was compatible with participants commitments to community school teacher education and community school teaching and learning. In the exploration of specific pedagogic practices different qualitative research approaches and perspectives were brought to bear in ways best suited to the circumstances of the practice. In this way analytical foci were more dictated by circumstances rather by design. The analytical approach is both a hermeneutic one where participants activities are read like texts, where what is said or written is interpreted against the background of other informing contexts and texts, to better understand how understandings and meanings are produced and circulated; and also a phenomenological one where participants perspectives are sought to better understand how pedagogical discursive formations are assimilated with the self. The effect of shifting between these approaches throughout the study is to build up a sense of co-authorship between researcher and participants in relation to particular aspects of the research. The research explores particular sites where pedagogic discourse is produced, re-produced, distributed, articulated, consumed and contested, and in doing so seeks to better understand what counts as pedagogical discourse. These are sites that are largely unexplored in these terms, in the academic literature on teacher education and community schooling in PNG. As such, they represent gaps in what is documented and understood about the nature of post-colonial pedagogy and teacher training. The first site is a grade two community school class involved in the teaching and early learning of English as the official language of instruction. Here local discourses of solidarity and agreement are seen to be mobilised to make meaningful, what are for the teacher and children moments in their construction as post-colonial subjects. What in instructional terms may be seen as an English language lesson becomes, in the light of the research perspectives used, an exercise in the structuring of new social identities, relations and knowings, problematising autonomous views of teaching and learning. The second site explores this issue of autonomous (decontextualised) teaching and learning through an investigation of student teachers epistemological contextualisations of knowledge, teaching and learning. What is examined is the way such orientations are constructed in terms of traditional and modern epistemological and pedagogical alignments, and, in terms of differently conceived notions of community, in a problematisation of the notion of community schooling. The third and fourth sites examine reflective accounts of student teachers pedagogic practices, understandings and subjectivities as they confront the moral and political economies and cultural politics of schooling in School Experiences and Practicum contexts, and show how dominant behaviourist and rational/autonomous conceptions of what counts as teaching and learning are problematised in the way some students teachers draw upon wider social discourses to construct a dialogue with learners. The final site is a return to the community school where the discourse of school reports through which teachers, children and parents are constructed as particular subjects of schooling, are explored. Here teachers report childrens progress over a four year period and parents write back in conforming, confronting and contesting ways, in the midst of the ongoing enculturation of their children. In this milieu, schooling is shown to be a provider of differentiated social qualifications rather than a socially just and relevant education. Each of the above-mentioned studies form part of a research and pedagogic interest in understanding the disciplining effects of schooling upon teacher education, the particular consequences of those effects, what is embraces, resisted and hidden. Each of the above sites is informed by various intertexts. The use of intertexts is designed to provide a multiplicity of views, actions and voices while enhancing the process of cross-cultural reading through contextualising the studies in ways that reveal knowledges and practices which are often excluded in more conventional accounts of teaching and learning. This research represents a journey, but not an aimless one. It is one which reads the ideological messages of coherence, impartiality and moral soundness of western pedagogical discourse against the school experiences of student-teachers, teachers, children and parents, in post-colonial Papua New Guinea, and finds them lacking.

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Turpin, Carrie. "Preservice Teachers' Cultural Models of Academic Success." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592134602496342.

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Wong, So Fei. "Analysis of teachers' discourse on ijime /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arw872.pdf.

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Blair, Jennifer Johnson. "Examining the relationship between preservice teachers' epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teacher identity within the boundaries of teacher education discourse communities." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/blair/BlairJ1209.pdf.

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A teacher's epistemological beliefs define the boundaries of his or her worldview and conceptualization of teacher identity. It is, therefore, essential that teacher educators support the development of sophisticated epistemological beliefs among preservice teachers. Prior studies have suggested that epistemic development may be hindered by emphasis placed on the performance of a socially constructed normative teacher identity within teacher preparation programs. This phenomenological study, which examines the relationship between preservice teachers' epistemological beliefs and their beliefs regarding normative teacher identity at different points in their teacher education program, aims to provide insight into how teacher preparation programs may better support the development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs among preservice teachers. Data was collected from 40 preservice teachers at Montana State University using a survey instrument created for this study and interpreted through a process of discourse analysis. The individual preservice teachers studied expressed epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teacher identity that were contradictory without ever acknowledging or attempting to explain these contradictions. This suggests that the participants may not have actually developed their own beliefs through a process of consideration or inquiry, but instead have received them during their time in the teacher preparation program. The results of this study suggest that interventions focused on reflection upon theory and practice will continue to be ineffective as long as the preservice teachers continue to reflect upon these ideas through the lens of undeveloped epistemological beliefs situated within the context of a received teacher identity.

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Ignatieva, Raisa P. "Positioning Teachers: A discourse analysis of Russian and American teacher identities in the context of changing national assessment mandates." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291776366.

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Knapp, Andrea K. Barrett Jeffrey Edward. "Prompting mathematics teacher development through dynamic discourse." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1417799381&SrchMode=1&sid=8&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1207665349&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.
Title from title page screen, viewed on April 8, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Jeffrey Barrett (chair), Nerida Ellerton, Sharon Soucy McCrone, Cynthia Moore, Michael Plantholt, Agida Manizade. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-215) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Anderson, Nancy C. "Preservice teachers' learning through discourse-intensive mathematics instruction." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12268.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
Even though discourse-intensive mathematics instruction is a widely endorsed pedagogy for preservice elementary teachers, much still remains unknown about how this type of instruction affects student learning. This study investigated the relationship between talk moves that prompted preservice teachers to respond to each other's contributions and their learning about division of fractions. Participants in two sections of a college mathematics class for preservice elementary teachers received three days of instruction on division of fractions. The learning goals were identical between groups. Participants in both groups completed tasks in small groups before talking about their solutions and strategies during whole-class discussions. The instructor used collegial talk moves in the treatment group only to ask participants to restate, evaluate, or add on to each other's explanations (e.g., "Who can repeat what Tim just said?"). Participants completed the Division of Fractions Test before and after the instruction. Whole-class discussions were recorded and transcribed. A normalized gain score was calculated for each participant using pre- and post-test scores from the Division of Fractions Test. An unpaired t-test showed no evidence of a significant difference in mean gain score between the control and treatment groups (t(24)=0.65, p=.52). Analysis of the whole-class discussions in the treatment group revealed two possible reasons why the collegial talk moves did not affect learning beyond the other aspects of the instruction. First, collegial talk moves that prompted participants to repeat and add on to each other's contributions typically provided participants with opportunities to contribute only parts of longer explanations. These moves were rarely used to ask participants to articulate entire explanations from start to finish. Collegial talk moves that prompted participants to evaluate each other's explanations were often ineffective at refocusing the discussion on targeted mathematical ideas. Research should continue to investigate the effect of collegial talk moves when they are used to provide preservice teachers with opportunities to deliver complete and correct explanations during whole-class discussions. There is also a need to examine how preservice teachers interpret prompts to evaluate the merits of a mathematical explanation.

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Whitney, Brian T. "Searching for patterns of discourse in a sea of professional development : professional learning and teacher discourse /." Boise State University: Complete ScholarWorks record including accompanying resources if available, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/20/.

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Barletta, Manjarres Norma Patricia. "English Teachers in Colombia: Ideologies and Identities in Academic Writing." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193920.

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English Language Teaching (ELT) can be considered an ideological enterprise especially at a time when the spread of English and the ELT profession are related to post-colonial and capitalist interests (Phillipson, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2006; Pennycook, 1994, 1997a; Canagarajah,1999b). In this context, nonnative English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) face particular challenges related to the prevailing ideologies of English, which has consequences in terms of roles, status, power, and access. This dissertation is a critical discourse analysis of the theses written by twenty in-service teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Colombia on completion of a one-year graduate program, during which they were acquainted with theories, approaches, and methodologies in the field of ELT. The objective is, through a close analysis of the language feature of the texts, 1) to identify ideologies of English, teaching and learning, and 2) to describe the identities the teachers construe for themselves in their writing. The analysis is text-driven and it uses categories from different functional approaches. The analysis of the texts shows that the writers engage in ideological discourses regarding the English language, the social and economic consequences of knowing English, and the cultural aims of foreign language teaching. Their discourses convey conceptions of teaching, learning and research that are influenced by acritical interpretations of the literature available to them. This does not seem to contribute to solving their practical problems and is likely to contribute to the maintenance of the students' established roles in their communities. The teacher-authors are faced with the challenge of dealing with the contradicting interests of their own ideals of education, the constraints of the conventions of the discourse community they are trying to enter, the institutional pressures to be updated with newer trends in applied linguistics and obtain visible results, and the needs of the country to find a place in the globalized economy. The study points to the need to encourage more critical interpretations and applications of the theories and approaches emanating from the traditional academic centers which in turn should also take interest in examining the pattern of the unilateral flow of knowledge and its consequences.

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MacKinnon, Rhona I. "Practising power : parent-teacher consultations in early years settings." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19849.

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This research explores parent-teacher consultations in a range of early years settings. Data were collected from eighteen audio-recorded parent-teacher consultations from six different settings and from follow up interviews with parents and teachers. The data related to the consultations and participants’ direct experience of these and revealed the practices of power within these consultations. Using a Foucauldian approach to analysis, the exercise of power and its impact on the parent-teacher relationship was explored. The analysis revealed the ways in which surveillance, normalising judgements and the ‘examination’ of all involved in the reporting process to parents, constitutes an exercise of power. Within the consultation parents, teachers and children are positioned as subjects who are homogenised and judged accordingly. Conversely, the presentation of observations and assessment information leads to the individualisation of children, allowing classifications and comparisons to be made in relation to a particular set of ‘truths’ about what it is to be a child, a parent and a teacher. Throughout the consultations parents and teachers assert and defend their positions and in doing so, attempts at resistance are evident. The findings of the research open up new possibilities for challenging existing modes of practice in parent-teacher consultations. These include implications for initial teacher education and CPD programmes, in order to develop awareness of the way in which power is exercised through parent-teacher interactions and the effects it can have. The need for policy makers to take greater account of the exercise of power when developing policies in relation to partnership with parents, and indeed in evaluating the impact of existing policy is also identified.

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Damianos, Mika. "Substitute teachers in elementary schools and their professional discourse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ33929.pdf.

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Santiago, Maria Elizabete Villela. "Investigating efl teachers discourse in an orkut community forum." Florianópolis, SC, 2008. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/91771.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente
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Analistas do discurso têm buscado novos caminhos para suprir a necessidade de uma teoria para a investigação do contexto social onde textos em suas diversas modalidades são produzidos (Halliday, 1999; Hasan, 1999; Meurer, 2004, 2006). No presente estudo, apresento uma proposta para a análise de inter-relações entre texto e contexto usando a Lingüística Sistêmico Funcional (Halliday, 1994, Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004) e a Teoria da Estruturação (Giddens, 1979, 1984) para desvendar o discurso de professores em um fórum online de uma comunidade na rede de relacionamentos Orkut. Tenho como objetivo descrever as identidades atribuídas aos professores, alunos e língua nas práticas sociais discursivamente representadas em postagens selecionadas do fórum e as relações de poder que os envolvem. Nesta análise, procuro relacionar os textos, onde discurso e ideologia se materializam, com o contexto social onde estes textos são produzidos e que, ao mesmo tempo, representam. Finalmente, explico como as práticas sociais descritas podem contribuir tanto para a manutenção como para a mudança das estruturas sociais. A análise dos dados indicou uma recursividade de práticas sociais que reforçam estruturas sociais onde a) os professores são representados como os detentores do poder e os agentes mais dinâmicos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem; b) os alunos são descritos como meros receptores da língua, c) que, por sua vez, é apresentada como o recurso que confere poder e permite ascensão social. Os resultados obtidos corroboram os de pesquisas anteriores (Graddol, 2001; Pennycook, 2001; Malatér, 2003; Dellagnelo, 2005; Dellagnelo & Meurer, 2006) e contribuem com a discussão sobre a necessidade de mudanças nos cursos de formação de professores para que se possa preparar profissionais mais críticos em relação à sua prática.

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Kim, Jung Sook. "Rethinking Discourses of Diversity: A Critical Discourse Study of Language Ideologies and Identity Negotiation in a University ESL Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492708729036445.

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Doray, Michele Brigitte Antoinette. "Gender differentiated discourse : a study of teacher discourse in the adult ESL classroom /." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Language and Intercultural Education, 2005. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16608.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate similarities and differences in the classroom discourse of male and female ESL teachers in the academic stream of one Western Australian tertiary institutions ELICOS program. Language and gender research generally suggests that males and females have different and quite distinctive communicative styles. This study attempts to examine if this finding is also manifested in male and female teachers discourse in adult ESL classrooms in the three main aspects of classroom interaction; giving explicit instructions, asking questions and providing verbal feedback, using Sinclair & Coulthards (1975) IRF framework. A sample of six teachers, three males and three females were observed through a process of non-participant observation and their lessons video-recorded in the naturalistic situation of the classroom in order to make a comparative analysis of their discourse.Teacher discourse in the three aspects of classroom interaction, namely, instructions, questioning and feedback, was examined with the purpose of exploring gender differences and similarities so that the reasons and implications for the manifestation of such similarities and differences can be further investigated. Conclusions were then made about the influence of traditional masculine and feminine speech styles on the discourse choices of the teachers.The discourse analysis found that more similarities than differences existed in the teachers classroom discourse supporting the notion that the choice of discourse features is dependent firstly on the context and secondly on the role of the interactants vis-à-vis each other in the community of practice. Although some differences emerged, the teachers in this study generally adopted a facilitative, cooperative speech style in their classroom discourse.

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Porter, Cindra K. "Planning to co-teach with ELL teachers: how discourse positions teachers within professional learning communities." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6250.

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This purpose of this single case study was to describe the discursive practices of an ELL teacher and a general education teaching in a co-teaching PLC setting. With the increased use of co-teaching as an approach to English language development supports, it is vital to gain a better understanding of how teachers plan to support the academic learning of English learners, and what language they use in these interactions. This study implemented a qualitative research design based in grounded theory and positioning theory. The results of this study found that the discursive practices of co-teachers were based in the content of topics, the method of discursive interactions, and their previous experiences in co-teaching that formed their interactions.

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Piazza, Peter. "Neo-democracy in educational policy making: Teachers' unions, Education Reform Advocacy Organizations and threats to public engagement in the new policy arena." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104144.

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Thesis advisor: Marilyn Cochran-Smith
This dissertation explores the many, complex changes to educational policy making in recent years. I conduct a critical policy analysis of a Massachusetts law that limits seniority-based job protections for public K-12 teachers. Garnering considerable controversy, the law was the result of private negotiations between the state's largest teachers' union and Stand for Children, a national Education Reform Advocacy Organization (ERAO). I use data from interviews with policy stakeholders, observations of public meetings and policy artifacts to explore struggles over public engagement in what unfolded as a highly undemocratic policy development process. My theoretical framework combines Stephen Ball's "policy cycle" (Ball, 1993; Bowe, Ball & Gold, 1992) with deliberative democratic theory. Aligned with Ball's work, I explore the ways that political discourses shaped struggles in various "contexts" of the policy development process. I demonstrate that policy development was a messy, non-linear process that involved complicated argumentation about teachers' unions, ERAOs, and community organizing. Informed by deliberative democratic theory, I focus on concrete efforts taken to include, or exclude, the public from the policy debate, and I highlight discourses that appeared to justify these political decisions. I argue that the case is indicative of what I am calling "neo-democratic" decision making, in which high-level interest group conflict leads to narrow forms of democratic engagement. I trace changes in each organization's political identity over the course of the conflict, and I demonstrate that identity was connected in important ways to underlying beliefs about policy making and public engagement. Fueled by interest group conflict, both Stand for Children and the Massachusetts Teachers' Association sought to promote the organizational identity that best suited their political interests. In the process, each organization pursued narrow forms of democratic engagement that clashed with their own organizational mission statements. I use findings from the case to offer suggestions for moving beyond the "neo-democratic" era and towards a system of policy making that aspires to higher democratic ideals
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction

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Eriks-Brophy, Alice. "Instructional discourse of Inuit and non-Inuit teachers of Nunavik." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/NQ44421.pdf.

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Meerholz-Haerle, Birgit Maria 1964. "Teachers talking shop: A discourse study of TA coordination meetings." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282672.

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This dissertation reports the findings of a study on teacher narratives recorded at a German Studies department over the course of one semester. Specifically, the study investigated co-construction of narratives among four groups of TAs during their weekly coordination meetings, focusing on the larger social processes and the local participation frameworks established in the process of co-narration. Furthermore, it explored the images of teachers and students, and the themes co-constructed in the narratives. The study involved fifteen TAs and one supervising faculty member. Narratives emerging in the course of their meetings were identified. For this purpose, a typology was developed which took into consideration not only past time narratives, but also those tellings which focused on anticipatory, hypothetical or generically occurring events. After emerging themes were tabulated, the co-constructed social projects and participation frameworks were explored using a microethnographic approach. Student and teacher images were investigated based on the evaluative devices employed. The results indicated that narratives were mainly told during the meetings to accomplish the sharing of experiences, the requesting and giving of advice, as well as the shaping of policies. The main themes addressed in the course of the tellings concerned grading and test-taking issues. TAs co-constructed themselves as group members as well as autonomous individuals. While generally displaying alignment with colleagues who were challenged by their students, the TAs also occasionally identified themselves as student spokespersons in opposition to their peers. When seeking advice, TAs were mostly reluctant to acknowledge their peers as givers of advice, and instead turned to the faculty member for help. TAs were generally portrayed in the narratives as competent speakers of the foreign language; understanding, engaged, communicative teachers; and facilitators for opportunities for learning. Students, in the majority of the narratives, were portrayed as lazy, cheating or unreasonable. This dissertation took into account the practices of co-construction which are at work when teachers narrate their professional experiences. So far, research on teacher narratives has mainly focused on data collected in contexts constructed by researchers. The contribution of this study is thus as research on naturalistically occurring teacher narratives.

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Hughes, M. "Sensitising primary school teachers to discourse relations in children's writing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233407.

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Askew, Michael. "Teachers, orientations and contexts : repertoires of discourse in primary mathematics." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415317.

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Lee, Soon Chun. "Teachers' Feedback to Foster Scientific Discourse in Connected Science Classrooms." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343178075.

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