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Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy Frances Christie

Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy By Frances Christie

Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy by Frances Christie

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Explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. This book shows the impact of language on knowledge and pedagogy. It examines the different structures of knowledge and the flow of information within the school context.

Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy Summary

Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives by Frances Christie

This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. Bernstein's sociology of knowledge makes a distinction between horizontal and vertical discourses as ways in which knowledge is transmitted in institutional settings, with teachers as agents of symbolic control. Systemic functional linguists have explored educational discourse according to similar hierarchies, and by bringing the two perspectives together this book shows the impact of language on knowledge and pedagogy. The contributors examine the different structures of knowledge and the flow of information within the school context, but also according to language in early childhood, literacy, English, the social sciences, science and mathematics. The result is a progressive and dynamic analysis of knowledge structures at work in educational institutions.

Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy Reviews

This volume is worthy of attention because its contributors are leading scholars in the traditions of SFL and Bernstein's sociology, developing the ideas and applications further, expanding their descriptive and explanatory potential. The resulting assuredness with which the book reads, and the dialogic structuring of the chapters (there is a strong sense of progression throughout), assist the reader with its quite complex ideas and arguments. So too does its emphasis on application of theory to the empirical issues. The book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of education and applied linguistics. It undoes the oppositional tendencies of terms such as everyday and commonsense, and offers instead more useful ways of thinking about different bodies of knowledge and the forms of discourse favoured by them. The applications to disciplinary knowledge make its international address clear. In the Australian educational context, this is a particularly timely volume for two reasons. It is critical preparatory reading for the reappraisal of official curriculum that must come with the move to national curriculum and national testing regimes. It also provides salutary warning of the problems of integrating curriculum currently evident in pedagogic trends such as rich tasks and connected outcomes groups. This book is a valuable resource for teacher educators, curriculum developers and policy makers concerned with rigorously informed curriculum and pedagogy. Researchers of language and education too will continue to reap benefits from what Jim Martin describes as the negotiation of ideas initiated by Bernstein, Halliday and Hasan into a second generation of research (p. 239). - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics -- Pauline Jones, University of Wollongong, Australia

About Frances Christie

Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

Part I: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives on Education; 1. The dialogue between functional linguistics and sociology - Frances Christie; Part II: Theoretical Foundations; 2. Bernstein's codes, devices and knowledge structures - Karl Maton and Johan Muller; 3. Kinds of knowledge: A functional linguistic perspective - J. R. Martin; Part III: Knowledge Structure: Horizontal and Vertical Discourse; 4. The nub of knowledge - Johan Muller; 5. Accessing knowledge structures - Karl Maton; 6. Canons and the basis of hierarchical knowledge structures - Robert Moore; Part IV: Fields of Discourse - Disciplines of Discourse; 7. Language for learning in early childhood - Claire Painter. 8. Literacy, segmented pedagogy and vertical discourse - Geoff Williams; 9. Forms of knowledge in subject English - Frances Christie and Mary Macken-Horarik; 10. Vertical and horizontal discourse and the social sciences - Peter Wignell; 11. Science, mathematics and multimodal grammaticality - Kay O'Halloran Part IV: Research Prospects - Exploring Uncommon Sense; 12. Future directions in research in knowledge structure - Frances Christie, J. R. Martin, Mary Maton and Johan Muller.

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NPB9780826489173
9780826489173
0826489176
Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives by Frances Christie
Frances Christie
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2007-02-01
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