Text and Discourse in Education: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis

Leadership cultures and discursive hybridisation

“…versions of the world (Luke, 1995) by producing "truths" of what we should do as members of Academia. Gordon, 2002).…”

“…We will here continue by analysing the consequences of this in terms of how space of action and organisational direction is produced in hybridised leadership cultures, attending specifically to how 'truths' are established (Luke, 1995) and how organisational members become constrained and enabled (Holmer-Nadesan, 1996). This analysis provides insight into how such processes take place on the formal arena.…”

Analysing ‘Migrant’ Membership Frames through Education Policy Discourse: An Example of Restrictive ‘Integration’ Policy within Europe

“…This connects to the idea of 'dominant' discourses (Ball, 1994;Jessop, 2004;Rizvi, 2006;Fairclough, 2009) within policy. These knowledge-power relations within these dominant discourses are achieved, according to Foucault, by the construction of 'truths' about the social and natural world [7] -truths that become taken-for-granted definitions and categories by which governments rule and monitor their populations and by which members of communities define themselves and others (Foucault, 1972, in Luke, 1996Howarth, 2010).…”

Some Complexities of Gendered Talk about Texts

“…This connectedness means that teacher-student and student-student interactions often are enacted according to society's hegemonic discourse practices (Annas, 1987;Kramarae & Treichler, 1990;Wortham, 1992). Consequently, interpretations of classroom discussions should not be isolated to an individual teacher's and student's immediate hierarchical role relationship, because such relationships are embedded in larger contexts constituted by the discourses of race, class, and gender (Fairclough, 1995;Gee, 1990;Luke, 1995).…”

“…Derived from approaches to critical discourse analysis (R. Luke, 1995), this procedure was dialectical, a reflective constant shuttling among the data I targeted through the guide and the theoretical perspectives I used to interpret the data. To illustrate, I noticed that Alex got in the last word when interpreting passages in both vignettes.…”