Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice
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Francisco Vicente Gómez
Abstract
In this chapter, I analyse text commentary as a construction of a discourse genre. As a critical instrument to serve both language and literature teaching, text commentary is a social practice through which political power exerts control over the production of discourses in the area of education. Within this discourse practice, a representative model of the change that took place in Spain in the 1970s is used as an example.
The analysis places the practice of commentary within the ideological practices of power and shows how society shapes a relationship with reality through its discourse about reading and understanding texts. This relationship can be either monological or dialogical. The lack of the latter is an emerging social problem.
Abstract
In this chapter, I analyse text commentary as a construction of a discourse genre. As a critical instrument to serve both language and literature teaching, text commentary is a social practice through which political power exerts control over the production of discourses in the area of education. Within this discourse practice, a representative model of the change that took place in Spain in the 1970s is used as an example.
The analysis places the practice of commentary within the ideological practices of power and shows how society shapes a relationship with reality through its discourse about reading and understanding texts. This relationship can be either monological or dialogical. The lack of the latter is an emerging social problem.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Preface ix
- Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing 1
- Chapter 2. White, Burke and the “literary” nature of historical controversies 17
- Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric 41
- Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict 67
- Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie 83
- Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries 107
- Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse 133
- Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice 159
- Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song 181
- Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city 203
- Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe 227
- Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions 249
- Epilogue 273
- Author index 285
- Subject index 289
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Preface ix
- Chapter 1. Constructionism in historical writing 1
- Chapter 2. White, Burke and the “literary” nature of historical controversies 17
- Chapter 3. The discursive construction of reality in the context of rhetoric 41
- Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict 67
- Chapter 5. I am and I am not Charlie 83
- Chapter 6. Media representations of recent human migrations to the United Kingdom and other Western countries 107
- Chapter 7. Rhetorical analysis of health risk discourse 133
- Chapter 8. Critical analysis of an educational discourse practice 159
- Chapter 9. The (re)construction of gender roles in the genre of song 181
- Chapter 10. Posthumanism and the city 203
- Chapter 11. Discourses of social movements in Southern Europe 227
- Chapter 12. Cognitive frames, imaginaries and discursive constructions 249
- Epilogue 273
- Author index 285
- Subject index 289
