With wonderful clarity Maggie MacLure shows how deconstructionism opens new avenues of critical inquiry and understanding for educational researchers. In exposing the hidden, ideological side of terms like clarity, certainty, mastery and relevance she allows us to see schooling and educational policy in new ways. In so doing she allows us to imagine classrooms as liberating, pedagogical places, as places where new forms of desire, knowledge, and learning take place - Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Maggie MacLure is Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. introducing discourse and educational research
2.The discourse of disgust:press engagements in the 'war' over standard English
3.interrogating the discourse of home-school relations: the case of 'parents' evenings' (with barbara walker)
4.Taking a text apart: a discourse analysis of a polemical article
5.the fabrication of research
6.The threat of writing
7.fabricating the self:metaphors of method in life-history interviews
8.The repulsion of theory: women writing research
9.the sudden laugh from nowhere: mimesis and illusion in art and research
10.Conclusion:deconstruction and educational research
appendices
1 Definitions of discourse: a sketchy overview
2 Standard English: chronology of policy events
3 Anatomy of a blaming sequence
notes
References
Index