Digital Library
Close Browse articles from a journal
 
   next >>
     Journal description
       All volumes of the corresponding journal
         All issues of the corresponding volume
           All articles of the corresponding issues
                                       Details for article 1 of 9 found articles
 
 
  Classroom Competencies and Marginal Positionings
 
 
Title: Classroom Competencies and Marginal Positionings
Author: Davies, Bronwyn
Hunt, Robyn
Appeared in: British journal of sociology of education
Paging: Volume 15 (1994) nr. 3 pages 389-408
Year: 1994
Contents: In this paper we examine the way students are positioned in classrooms in terms of the binary power/powerlessness and its relation to other binaries such as teacher/student, white/black and competent/incompetent student. We show how those positioned in the marked non-ascendant pair of each binary are assumed, from the perspective of 'teaching-as-usual' to be choosing (irrationally) their lesser status. We show how this can be read quite differently from a poststructuralist perspective and how such a reading makes visible the ways in which power and ascendant positionings are discursively achieved not only as 'normal' but as the way things really are and should be. It further makes visible the ways in which such discursive achievements are dependent on those who are positioned as the necessary other/outsider to the ascendant order.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

                             Details for article 1 of 9 found articles
 
   next >>
 
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands