Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780230229945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 233 str.

Helen Sauntson

Opis

Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts especially in the classroom has long been acknowledged. Innovatively combining approaches in the analysis of classroom discourse this book offers rich empirical findings as well as being theoretically interesting and valuable.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Language, Gender, Sexuality and Schooling Data and Methods From Form to Function: Structural-Functional Discourse Analysis From Structural to Post-structural: Critical Feminist Approaches Beyond Gender Identity: Queer Theory Moving Forward? Some Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index

O autorze

HELEN SAUNTSON is Head of Programme - MA TESOL at York St John University, UK. She is the author, with Liz Morrish, of New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity (2007), co-editor, with Sakis Kyratzis, of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2007) and co-editor, with Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland, of Gender and Language Research Methodologies (2008), all published by Palgrave Macmillan.