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Before Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Before Writing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing. This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentring of language in educational theory and practice.

The Terms of Political Discourse.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Terms of Political Discourse.

William Connolly presents a lucid and concise defense of the thesis of "essentially contested concepts" that can well be read as a general introduction to political theory, as well as for its challenge to the prevailing understanding of political discourse. In Connolly's view, the language of politics is not a neutral medium that conveys ideas independently formed but an institutionalized structure of meanings that channels political thought and action in certain directions. In the new preface he pursues the implications of this perspective for a distinctive conception of ethics and democracy.

We've Got Blog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

We've Got Blog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An introduction to the phenomenon of Weblogs--online journals and diaries--and the people who keep them