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Discourse in educational and social research / Maggie MacLure.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLure, Margaret.
- Series:
- Conducting educational research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Research--Methodology.
- Education.
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 Introducing discourse and educational research 1
- 2 The discourse of disgust: press engagements in the 'war' over standard English 22
- 3 Interrogating the discourse of home-school relations: the case of 'parents' evenings' (with Barbara Walker) 48
- 4 Taking a text apart: a discourse analysis of a polemical article 69
- 5 The fabrication of research 80
- 6 The threat of writing 105
- 7 Fabricating the self: metaphors of method in life-history interviews 119
- 8 The repulsion of theory: women writing research 133
- 9 The sudden laugh from nowhere: mimesis and illusion in art and research 149
- 10 Conclusion: deconstruction and educational research 163
- 1 Definitions of discourse: a sketchy overview 174
- 2 Standard English: chronology of policy events 192
- 3 Anatomy of a blaming sequence 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335201911
- 0335201903
- OCLC:
- 50598384
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