Loss of the Creature: The Obscuring of Inclusivity in Classroom Discourse

The Impact of NCLB and Accountability on Social Studies: Teacher Experiences and Perceptions about Teaching Social Studies

“…For instance, teachers at the third-grade level may decide that their school and their community should engage in recycling. These and other topics help students understand content standards about community and promote classroom discourse (Rex 2003). Students then become involved in a school-wide or possibly a community-wide program to reduce waste and increase recycling.…”

Commentaries

“…The adolescents in this study (Rex, 2003) were less confident, less keen, or less able to take advantage of schooling resources. They were struggling to understand the kind of student they needed to be or the role of school in their lives.…”

Literacy Learning as Gendered Identity Work

“…Sociolinguistic approaches to literacy practices have further highlighted how both reading and writing and the talk that accompanies them serve interpersonal communicative goals (Gee, 1996;Rex, 2003). Written discourse, like spoken discourse, entails communicating intended meaning between interlocutors (in the case of texts, between writers and readers rather than between speakers and listeners).…”

“…Written discourse, like spoken discourse, entails communicating intended meaning between interlocutors (in the case of texts, between writers and readers rather than between speakers and listeners). In academic settings, particularly in English or language arts classes, both written discourse (usually in the form of literature or students' essays) and talk about such written discourse are prominent means of academic interpersonal communication (Rex, 2003). Gee (1996) notes that, as such, academic literacies and the oral language that accompanies them serve to mediate identities within particular social practices and settings.…”