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Download full textKamler, Barbara – 1994
A case study examined the processes by which girls and boys in their first month of primary school assume particular, highly gendered subjectivities within the school setting. Subjects, 28 children of diverse multicultural origins entering a suburban primary school in a large regional center in southern Victoria, Australia, were observed in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Comber, Barbara – 1993
Recent debates focus on literacy curriculum as if it is separate from teachers' other work, almost at times as if teachers and their contexts are irrelevant to what is the most appropriate literacy pedagogy. Perhaps learning to read and write is not hard work, but teaching is, no matter which theoretical orientation about literacy is adhered to.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged Schools, Discourse Communities
Comber, Barbara – 1998
This paper considers how Australian young people living in relative poverty, per se, are portrayed in media reports and how a specific group of socioeconomically disadvantaged young people are constituted in teachers' classroom talk. The paper begins with the examination of several newspaper reports, part of an archive of articles concerned with…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Disadvantaged Schools
Comber, Barbara – 1997
It is not news that managerial discourses have dominated government educational policy and programs in Australia since the mid 1980s. During this period there has also been a proliferation of discourses about literacy. The common sense view is that literacy empowers disadvantaged people and assists failing economies. The last decade and a half has…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
O'Brien, Jennifer – 1994
A study examined from a feminist poststructuralist perspective the discourses available in a classroom using a critical pedagogy, based on a belief that teaches need to make it possible for their students to question the social world constructed in texts. The teacher of an Australian junior primary classroom (with students age five to eight) took…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
The Construction and Reconstruction of Gender in Classroom Discourse: Disciplining the Student Body.
Kamler, Barbara – 1993
A study analyzed the multiple purposes of songs in which children in early childhood classrooms sing and move their bodies to the lyrics, the discourses the songs mobilize, and the gendered positions the songs accomplish. Subjects, 28 students entering their first year in a suburban primary school in a large regional center in southern Victoria,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
