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    Discourse: some considerations for the reflective practitioner


    Ryan, Anne B. (2011) Discourse: some considerations for the reflective practitioner. In: The Reflective Practitioner. MACE: Maynooth Adult and Community Education.

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    Abstract

    In this chapter, I use the term discourse in a very specific way. My usage concerns meaning repertoires, through which we filter our experiences. When people talk about something or when we act, we draw on or activate certain meaning-resources or discourses.2 We often do so within dominant discourses, which characterise ways of talking, writing, thinking, behaving and theorising that prevail at certain times in certain arenas of life. How do these taken-for-granted ways of being define or position people in particular ways? How do they act to legitimise particular kinds of behaviour? What assumptions does a particular discourse contain about what is normal or desirable? Whose position is strengthened or weakened by what is focused upon or what is ignored within a particular discourse? What discourses are muted or unacknowledged? What discourses might one expect to find concerning a theme, but which are noticeable by their absence? Such questions are a necessary concern for the reflective practitioner.

    Item Type: Book Section
    Keywords: Discourse; reflective practitioner;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education
    Item ID: 2447
    Depositing User: Anne B. Ryan
    Date Deposited: 28 Feb 2011 12:45
    Publisher: MACE: Maynooth Adult and Community Education
    Refereed: Yes
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      Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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