Discourse and Education Encyclopedia of Language and EducationVolume 3 [Paperback]

This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of discource. Discourse as talk-in-interaction, commonly espoused in studies of classroom discourse since the 1970s. Discourse as ways of understanding and constituting the social world, the critical, post-structuralist view of discourse as a source of power.Several themes resonate across the four sections and the chapters within them: Widening the scope of enquiry, combining approaches to discourse Linking the study of discourse with ethnography Dealing with the changing nature of contemporary patterns of communicationThis is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.

This volume surveys the research on discourse and education, adopting the broadest definition of discource. The text of each review is followed by a reference list containing about 30 key references mentioned in the text.

General Editors Introduction / Nancy H. HornbergerIntroduction to Volume 3: Discourse and Education / Marilyn Martin-Jones and Anne-Marie de Mej?aContributorsReviewersSection 1: Discourse in Education: Theory and Method1. Classroom Interaction, Situated Learning / Judith Green and Carol Dixon2. Conversation Analysis and Talk-in-interaction in Classrooms / Junko Mori and Jane Zuengler3. Genres and Institutions: Functional Perspectives on Educational Discourse / Frances Christie4. Official Pedagogic Discourses and the Construction of Learners Identities / Jill Bourne5. Critical Discourse Analysis in Education / Rebecca Rogers6. Post-structuralist Analysis of Classroom Discourse / Judith Baxter7. Revoicing across Learning Spaces / Janet Maybin8. Linguistic Anthropology oflc�