Oral Discourse and Education - Encyclopedia of Language and Education 1997 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Description for Sales People: Title is also available as part of a set: Encyclopedia of Language and Education (978-0-7923-4596-1) Table of Contents: Part One: Theorising Talk. 1. Talking about Text and the Culture of Literacy; D. Olson. 2. A Critical-pragmatic Theory of Classroom Talk; R. Young. 3. A Sociocultural Perspective on Classroom Discourse; E. Measures, et al. 4. Challenging and Changing: Communicative Competence and the Classroom; S. Grundy. 5. Ethnomethodological Studies of Talk in Educational Settings; C. Baker. 6. Poststructuralist Theory and Classroom Talk; N. Alloway, P. Gilbert. Part Two: Oral Language, Culture and Identity. 7. Oral Language, Culture and Class; A. D. Edwards. 8. Conversational Patterns Across Gender, Class and Ethnicity: Implications for Classroom Discourse; D. Tannen, et al. 9. Language Choice and Symbolic Domination; M. Heller. 10. Teacher-Pupil Talk in Multi-Ethnic Classrooms; V. Edwards. 11. Critical Oracy for Active Citizenship; R. Gilbert. 12. The Construction of Gendered Identity through Play; B. Davies. 13. The Construction of Gendered Identity through Classroom Talk; H. Bjerrum Nielsen, B. Davies. 14. Narrative and the Shaping of Identity; J. Golden. 15. The Construction of Social Competencies through Talk; J. L. Green, C. N. Dixon. 16. The Acquisition of Communicative Competence amongst Children with Language and Speech Impairment. 17. Classroom Discourse for the Making of Learning; C. Pontecorvo. 18. Effective Educational Talk; N. Mercer. 19. Preconditions for Successful Small-Group Talk in the Classroom; D. Westgate. 20. Children's Collaborative Talk; S. Lyle. 21. Interaction Patterns in University Education; V. de Klerk. 22. Children's Talk and Computers; P. Scrimshaw. 23. The Use of Talk in Mathematics; S. Pirie. 24. Discourse and Conceptual Understanding in Science; C. Boulter. 25. Using Oral Discourse in Literary Studies; J. McGonigal. Index. Publisher Marketing: Oral Discourse and Education examines spoken language as a field of study, looking at the various ways in which we can both theorise the place of talk in education, and examine the way talk is actually done in educational settings. Given the centrality of literacy-based practices in schools, a book focusing on talk brings quite different and important perspectives to the study of education. Talk is something that has all too often been devalued and taken for granted. What becomes evident throughout the papers included in this volume is that talk is of central importance in establishing identities and the cultures in which those identities are located. However, because we are unused to reflexively examining the way we talk, there is a serious disjuncture between what we believe talk should achieve and what can be seen to be achieved in actual talk in educational settings. Anyone interested in teaching should read this book. Becoming more aware of the centrality of talk and what it achieves is important both for enabling us to find ways to bring our ideals more in line with our practices and for being able to recognise and reflect on the ways our talk can be achieving things quite other than what we intend. This book is relevant to teachers at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and for researchers interested in spoken language in educational contexts.

Contributor Bio:  Corson, David Corson-University of TorontoContributor Bio:  Davies, Bronwyn Jenny Browne is the Midwifery Program Coordinator at the University of Newcastle, NSW. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Sydney, NSW, looking at the work women do to constitute themselves as midwives. Phoenix de Carteret's PhD research at the University of New England focused on women's experiences of discourses that shape classed and gendered subjectivity. She used collective biography as a research method. Professor Bronwyn Davies is Professor of Education at University of Western Sydney. Her work focuses on gender and poststructuralist theorising and on body/ landscape relations. Suzi Dormer is a psychologist in private practice in Townsville, Queensland. She is particularly interested in the workings of desire in women's lives. Anna Britt Flemmen is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tromso in Norway. Her doctoral research focused on how women's fear of sexual violence influenced their activity space and her current work is on close relationships. Susanne Gannon lectures in Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her doctoral research focused on poststructural theory and transgressive writing and research practices. Eileen Honan is a lecturer in Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her Ph. D. thesis was a poststructural rhizoanalysis of the interactions between teachers and syllabus texts. Lekkie Hopkins teaches women's studies at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. Her work is feminist, poststructuralist, and cross-disciplinary. Her doctoral thesis explores the uses of narrative in re-storying the self in the training of womens services practitioners. Cath Laws isPrincipal of Fowler Road School, Sydney, Australia. Her doctoral research focused on children who are marginalised at school, particularly those children who are marginalised as behaviourally/ emotionally disturbed. Hillevi Lenz Taguchi is assistant professor in Education and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden. Her research concerns feminist pedagogies in higher and in early childhood education. Helen McCann was a lecturer in Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Hervey Bay, Qld, Australia. Babette Muller-Rockstroh is a medical anthropologist and a midwife. She is currently working on a PhD project on ultrasound in Ghana and Tanzania through the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Margaret Somerville lectures in Adult Education at the University of New England, NSW, Australia. Her doctoral work focused on body/ landscape relations and her current work also encompasses bodies in workplaces. Eva Bendix Petersen lectures in Education at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. Her doctoral research at the University of Copenhagen focused on the constructions of scientificity and researcherhood within the humanities and social sciences. Danielle Stewart is a teacher in Queensland, Australia. She was a BEd (Hons) student at James Cook University at the time of the project included in this book. Sharn Rocco lectures in education at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Her doctoral research investigated women's desire for heterosexual marriage. Barbara Watson is an adjunct lecturer in education and psychology at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Her doctoral research was a criticalpragmatic analysis of parent's living with a child with an intellectual disability. Monne Wihlborg is a lecturer in education at Lund University in Sweden.