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Beyond Communities of Practice: Language

David Barton & Karin Tusting

In Alan F. Blackwell & David MacKay (eds.), Power. New York: Cambridge University Press (2005)

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Stance-taking and public discussion in blogs.Greg Myers - 2010 - Critical Discourse Studies 7 (4):263-275.details Blogs, which can be written and read by anyone with a computer and an internet connection, would seem to expand the possibilities for engagement in public sphere debates. Indeed, blogs are full of the kind of vocabulary that suggests intense discussion. However, a closer look at the way this vocabulary is used in context suggests that the main concern of writers is self-presentation, positioning themselves in a crowded forum, in what has been called stance-taking. When writers mark their stances, for (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Unruly Practices: What a sociology of translations can offer to educational policy analysis.Mary Hamilton - 2011 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 43 (S1):55-75.details This paper argues for the utility of ANT as a philosophical and methodological approach to policy analysis. It introduces the key features of a recent educational policy reform initiative, Skills for Life and illustrates the argument by looking at three ‘moments’ (in Callon's 1986 terminology) in the life of this initiative, applying the theoretical tools of ANT to these. The analysis shows that even (and perhaps especially) within a strongly framed social policy initiative like the Skills for Life Strategy, things (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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