The archaeology of knowledge
01 Sep 1989-pp 227-260
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a development of a critically reflexive practice of visual archaeological expressionism, which seeks to contest traditional modes of thought and action, in order to illuminate and expose the interpretive and artistic qualities of presentation and narration.
Abstract: Is archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and archaeological representation? These initial thoughts form the basis for our archaeological explorations. Within current archaeological discourse, there are a growing number of requests for expressions, which illuminate and expose the interpretive and artistic qualities of presentation and narration. Yet few scholars actively utilize expressive practice to explore these philosophical issues. As such, we feel that it is an opportune time to intervene in visual and textual discourse by issuing a manifesto for our project. We call for a development of a critically reflexive practice of visual archaeological expressionism, which seeks to contest traditional modes of thought and action.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors document the challenges of operationalizing critical qualitative mobile research methods, specifically go-along interviews, which is a way to exam mobility-oriented qualitative inquiry.
Abstract: In this article, I document the challenges of operationalizing critical qualitative mobile research methods, specifically go-along interviews. Mobility-oriented qualitative inquiry is a way to exam...
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...I approached the analysis of research journals guided by a discursive Foucauldian (Foucault, 1972; 1979) socio-spatial framework to examine issues of power–knowledge, surveillance, normalizing regimes, disability-related discourses, the biomedical gaze, and subjectivity....
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...Journals were hand-coded using a form of Foucauldian (Foucault, 1972; 1979) discursive thematic socio-spatial analysis (Fereday & Muir-Cochrane, 2006)....
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...Foucault (1972, 1979) and socio-spatial theorists, such as Lefebvre (2009) and Soja (1989), provide a socio-spatial theoretical framework to examine how university academic accommodations may function as regimes of truths that discursively and materially shape the lives of disabled and Mad students…...
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...For this article, the primary question guiding my inquiry was “Why did participants trouble go-along interviews?” Journals were hand-coded using a form of Foucauldian (Foucault, 1972; 1979) discursive thematic socio-spatial analysis (Fereday & Muir-Cochrane, 2006)....
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TL;DR: The effort to upgrade preparation standards for educational leaders is a world wide phenomenon (Gronn, 2002). In the United States, lacking an equivalent of a national ministry of education as in other countries, that thrust has taken many forms over the past decade but has primarily involved national professional administrative associations as well as state departments of education.
Abstract: The effort to upgrade preparation standards for educational leaders is a world wide phenomenon (Gronn, 2002). In the United States, lacking an equivalent of a national ministry of education as in other countries, that thrust has taken many forms over the past decade but has primarily involved national professional administrative associations as well as state departments of education. The culmination of this movement has become centered in national accrediting bodies for schools of education, specifically NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) and the National Policy Board of Educational Administration (NPBEA) and a sub-unit called ELCC (Educational Leadership Constituent Council). As NCATE, NPBEA, and the ELCC exercise the policing function on university and college programs which prepare educational leaders, the makeup of the standards, their assumptions, and results become critically important. This article argues that this movement embodies the teleology of standardization ...
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...Exhibit 1 below shows the manner in which a ‘‘knowledge base’’ is superimposed over a whole host of practices, beliefs, actions, theories, viewpoints into what Foucault (1974) has called ‘‘a field of presence.’’...
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TL;DR: In this paper, context-specific frameworks that constrain what can be presented as rational when considering psychoactive substances are conceptualised as context specific frameworks, and the implications of this for Australian discourse are discussed.
Abstract: Discourses are conceptualised as context-specific frameworks that constrain what can be presented as rational when considering psychoactive substances. Given the implications of this for Australian...
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TL;DR: In this article, a case study explores the production of a financial news story about the supply of gas to French consumers, and the way the practices in question subtly write Russia as a threat.
Abstract: Drawing on the perspectives of ethnography and discourse analysis, this paper first gives an overview of the emerging body of research bringing together the epistemologies and the methods of these two perspectives. It then presents a novel analytical framework for computer-assisted ethnographic discourse analysis. The paper outlines how close analysis of discursive practices—in this case journalistic writing practices—can provide insights into struggles over meaning and hegemony in contemporary knowledge work. The case study explores the production of a financial news story about the supply of gas to French consumers, and the way the practices in question subtly write Russia as a threat.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101183
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18 Jul 2003
TL;DR: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion
Abstract: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Types of Exchange, Speech Functions, and Grammatical Mood Part 3: Discourses and Representations 7. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Styles 10. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion
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TL;DR: A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research in information systems is proposed, along with their philosophical rationale, and the usefulness of the principles is illustrated by evaluating three publishedinterpretive field studies drawn from the IS research literature.
Abstract: This article discusses the conduct and evaluatoin of interpretive research in information systems. While the conventions for evaluating information systems case studies conducted according to the natural science model of social science are now widely accepted, this is not the case for interpretive field studies. A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research in information systems is proposed, along with their philosophical rationale. The usefulness of the principles is illustrated by evaluating three published interpretive field studies drawn from the IS research literature. The intention of the paper is to further reflect and debate on the important subject of grounding interpretive research methodology.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
Abstract: What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis. The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. Sorting Things Out has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.
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TL;DR: In this article, two such metaphors are identified: the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor, and their entailments are discussed and evaluated, and the question of theoretical unification of research on learning is addressed, wherein the purpose is to show how too great a devotion to one particular metaphor can lead to theoretical distortions and to undesirable practices.
Abstract: This article is a sequel to the conversation on learning initiated by the editors of Educational Researcher in volume 25, number 4. The author’s first aim is to elicit the metaphors for learning that guide our work as learners, teachers, and researchers. Two such metaphors are identified: the acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor. Subsequently, their entailments are discussed and evaluated. Although some of the implications are deemed desirable and others are regarded as harmful, the article neither speaks against a particular metaphor nor tries to make a case for the other. Rather, these interpretations and applications of the metaphors undergo critical evaluation. In the end, the question of theoretical unification of the research on learning is addressed, wherein the purpose is to show how too great a devotion to one particular metaphor can lead to theoretical distortions and to undesirable practices.
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TL;DR: Problematization is proposed as a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing literature and, based on that, formulating research questions that are likely to lead to more influential theories.
Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that what makes a theory interesting and influential is that it challenges our assumptions in some significant way. However, established ways for arriving at research questions mean spotting or constructing gaps in existing theories rather than challenging their assumptions. We propose problematization as a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing literature and, based on that, formulating research questions that are likely to lead to more influential theories.
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