knowledge

 

This morning I've been occupied with reading two articles. The first was Heap's (1985) Discourse in the production of classroom knowledge: Reading lessons. Curriculum Inquiry, 15, 246 - 279.

I went back to the Heap article because i wanted to reconsider what he had said about use of text during reading lessons. Heap showed that students were learning

-“text-as-source’ rule (p. 266)
-how a story can be “understood as part of the culture, hence governed by its logic.” (p. 266)

The thing that always strikes me about reading Heap, is that they are "big" papers.

The second article I read was: Goodwin, M. H. (2007). Occasioned knowledge exporation in family interaction. Discourse and Society, 18, 93 - 110. This one examined one's family's interactions in order to "explicate the ensemble of conversational practices a particular family makes use of to cultivate active engagement in imaginative inquiry about the world." (p. 94). Analysis in the article addresses:
-"practices for inviting exploration" (p. 97)
-"word play in the midst of exploring the meaning of a word" (p. 100)
-"an extended sequence of playful knowledge exploration".

I was interested in the last point particularly since I considered extended sequences as an aspect of my PhD.