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ERIC Number: EJ1395563
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1743-727X
EISSN: EISSN-1743-7288
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Pedagogy-as-Praxis: A Sociocultural Framework for Researching Pedagogy as Performance and Discourse
International Journal of Research & Method in Education, v46 n5 p460-478 2023
This article presents a sociocultural conceptual framework for researching pedagogy as the "performance" of teaching together with its attendant "discourse." The framework, referred to as pedagogy-as-praxis, consists of two core elements that draw on, combine and adapt several different yet complimentary theoretical perspectives. First, Alexander's action-based framework (the "what") and components of Bernstein's theory on educational transmission (the "how") are combined to intricately and sensitively describe the "performance" of teaching. Second, by positioning the performance of teaching as the tool element within an adapted and extended activity system, the remaining activity theory elements--subject, object, rules, community and division of labour--are applied to understand the "discourse" that produces, structures and influences its modality (the "why"). When combined within the pedagogy-as-praxis framework, these theoretical perspectives enable an analysis of how socio-cultural-political factors shape and mediate educational practices. The article starts by considering the definition of pedagogy upon which the framework is based before outlining the theoretical perspectives it is underpinned by. The framework and its constituting elements are then applied and demonstrated.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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