Critical Discourse Analysis: Giving voice to issues of power and justice within a poverty and disadvantage research programme
Overview:
In this video, join Dr Carl Emery for
- Considerations of the utility of critical discourse analysis (CDA), a discussion of CDA models and tools for employing CDA
- Discussion of CDA as an approach, the nature of the subjective researcher influence in CDA and the epistemological implications of this
- Using CDA to investigate social justice and power within the context of poverty and education
- An overview of the Local Matters research programme; an initiative training teachers to undertake action research to explore poverty within their local context to bring about change within their school community through practice and policy
- An engaging discussion with viewers debating their CDA interpretations in a live exercise
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Citation of publication:
Emery, C., Raffo, C., Dawes, L. (Forthcoming) The local matters- working with teachers to rethink the poverty and achievement gap discourse. Education Policy Analysis Archives
Emery, C., Dawes, L. (2021) Local Matters: Case studies of a University/school poverty research programme. National Education Union
