Rhetoric and Educational Discourse: Persuasive Texts

ISBN-13: 9780415296717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str.

Richard Edwards; R. Edwards

Opis

This book is the first to offer a philosophical and linguistic analysis of rhetoric and discourse as deployed throughout education. It draws upon the work of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard to investigate rhetoric in the classroom; in learning mediated through new communication technologies (e.g. the Internet) in professional development; in policy documents; in institutional management and leadership and in education research itself. It will be a key resource for those conducting research into discourse in any branch of education.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Acts of Seduction? 2. Rhetorical Practices 3. Metaphors of and in Learning and Teaching 4. Inventing the 'Good Teacher' 5. Cyberspace, Cyberbole: Metaphorizing the Virtual 6. Taking Up Workplace Learning 7. Action at a Distance: the Rhetoric of Research Management 8. Sultans of Spin? 9. The Migrating and Forging of Policy 10. Writing Research

O autorze

Richard Edwards is Professor of Educattion and Katherine Nicoll is Lecturer in Education, both at the University of Stirling. Nicky Solomon is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney. Robin Usher is Professor of Education at RMIT University in Melbourne.