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Figured Worlds
Author | : Professor John Clammer,J. R. Clammer,Sylvie Poirier,Eric Schwimmer |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0802087493 |
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"World Visions can conceive of everything except alternative world visions." If this pronouncement by Umberto Eco is right, how can any ethnic group conceive of living with another group on the same territory - in Canada or elsewhere - if their world visions are incompatible? Can we sidestep incompatible world visions or should we try to understand them? Figured Worlds explores the possibilities of equilibrium between commitments to mutual understanding and the framing of strategies of negotiation. This collection begins its rich analytical investigation by describing how people - Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori, Japanese, and Africans - first learn the figured worlds of their own culture, made up of sensations, affirmations and will, prophecy, revelation, myth, dream, and metamorphoses. It then sets out how diverse figured worlds within a given social system are related, and concludes by offering insightful mappings of the dynamics of these relations, perceived in both their existential-ontological aspects, as well as their material-practical means. Comprising scholarship that is half Canadian and half British, this work offers important foundational perspectives into the thought worlds of cultures found within other cultures.
Literacies Power and Identities in Figured Worlds in Malawi
Author | : Ahmmardouh Mjaya |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781350144842 |
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This book is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of the National Adult Literacy Programme (NALP) in Malawi. It highlights the significance of exploring power and identity in literacy studies. Employing the concept of 'figured worlds' to study literacy as a social practice, the book focuses on understanding power relationships and identities in literacy practices. It illustrates how literacy identities and power relationships of some local community members continuously vary from one context to another and, in some cases, even within the same context. Using notions such as agency, artefact, resistance, shame and positioning, the book demonstrates the potential of the concept of figured worlds to address some of the questions raised within the New Literacy Studies – especially those concerning power and identity. The book also illustrates the value of an ethnographic approach in adult literacy studies, by exploring the challenges faced by the researcher in gaining access to community members' activities, and the opportunity to experience first-hand what instructors go through in facilitating adult literacy lessons.
Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds
Author | : Dorothy Holland |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2001-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674005627 |
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This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.
Prospective Teachers Figured Worlds of the Parent teacher Conference
Author | : Mary M. Tomczyk |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Parent-teacher conferences |
ISBN | : MSU:31293030630911 |
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Drawing on Students Worlds in the ELA Classroom
Author | : Richard Beach |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781000576467 |
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This book approaches English instruction through the lens of “fi gured worlds,” which recognizes and spotlights how students are actively engaged in constructing their own school, peer group, extracurricular, and community worlds. Teachers’ ability not only to engage with students’ experiences and interests in and outside of school but also to build connections between students’ worlds and their teaching is essential for promoting student agency, engagement, and meaningful learning. Beach and Caraballo provide an accessible framework for working with students to use critical discourse, narratives, media, genres, and more to support their identity development through addressing topics that are meaningful for them— their families, social issues, virtual worlds, and more. Through extensive activities and examples of students writing about their participation in these worlds, this text allows educators to recognize how students’ experiences in the classroom aff ect and shape their identities and to connect such an understanding to successful classroom practice. With chapters featuring eff ective instructional activities, this book is necessary reading for ELA methods courses and for all English teachers.
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Author | : James Paul Gee |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317820581 |
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Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally used in conjunction with the practical companion title How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Together they provide the complete resource for students studying discourse analysis. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this seminal textbook also includes two new chapters: ‘What is Discourse?’ to further understanding of the topic, as well as a new concluding section. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis includes perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. This is an essential textbook for all advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis.
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
Author | : Professor Harry Daniels,Harry Daniels,Michael Cole,James V. Wertsch,Professor and Chair Department of Education James V Wertsch |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2007-04-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780521831048 |
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A comprehensive text providing a critical perspective on Vygotsky and his work.
Among friends
Author | : Agnes Brandt |
Publsiher | : V&R Unipress |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783847000600 |
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Relationships are the glue that holds the world together. As the author shows, this common belief applies to ancient Greece as much as to contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this anthropological study dedicates itself to the topic of friendship – this flexible type of sociality that has become increasingly significant in people's lives throughout the world. At the core stand the friendship conceptions and life-worlds of Maori and Pakeha actors in New Zealand. By tracing out people's "friendship worlds" in their wider societal context, the author takes up current debates surrounding issues of identity and sociality, indigeneity and diversity. By furthering our understanding of the social dynamics of friendship in New Zealand, the study not only contributes to the growing field of friendship research, it also reveals important implications for the understanding of group relations in a postcolonial, so-called "multicultural" society.