With the Best of Intentions: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Physical Education Curriculum Materials

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Rossi ◽  
Richard Tinning ◽  
Louise McCuaig ◽  
Karen Sirna ◽  
Lisa Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Developed World

Much of physical education curriculum in the developed world and specifically in Australia tends to be guided in principle by syllabus documents that represent, in varying degrees, some form of government education priorities. Through the use of critical discourse analysis we analyze one such syllabus example (an official syllabus document of one of the Australian States) to explore the relationships between the emancipatory/social justice expectations presented in the rubric of and introduction to the official syllabus document, and the language details of learning outcomes that indicate how the expectations might be satisfied. Given the complexity and multilevel pathways of message systems/ideologies we question the efficacy of such documents oriented around social justice principles to genuinely deliver more radical agendas which promote social change and encourage a preparedness to engage in social action leading to a betterment of society.

Inclusive Physical Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Ontario Secondary School Health and Physical Education Curriculum

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Enid K. Selkirk ◽  
Cheryl Missiuna ◽  
Sandra Moll ◽  
Peter Rosenbaum ◽  
Wenonah Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Health And Physical Education ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Purpose: Education policies require inclusive practices across student learning environments internationally. In Canada, provinces and territories oversee their own curriculum development. This study presents a critical discourse analysis of how inclusive education is addressed within Ontario’s 2015 Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Grades 9–12. Method: Fairclough and Chouliaraki’s approach to critical discourse analysis, which encompasses structural, linguistic, and interdiscursive analysis, was used to show how language is interwoven within ideologies of physical education to represent inclusivity. Results: Three discourses were identified: (a) the discourse of equity and inclusion, (b) the discourse of opportunity, and (c) the discourse of positive outcomes. The curriculum reflects inclusivity through overt language and intention, holding the possibility for choice and opportunities beyond traditional notions of physical education. Discussion: Concerns included whether ideals presented in the curriculum reflect the realities of “discourse in action.” Transformative discourses within physical education should emerge from the student voice.

scholarly journals Paradigma Kritis Dalam Penelitian Wacana

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 482
Author(s):  
Suharyo Suharyo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Linguistic Units

So far, linguistic research, especially discourse research, is still focused on aspects of the linguistic structure as forming the discourse. Discourse is examined for the existence of cohesiveness and coherence of the discourse. What are the linguistic units that form cohesiveness and cohesiveness both lexical and grammatical coherence. This is different from discourse research using critical discourse paradigms. Critical discourse holds that discourse-forming structures are not in a social "vacuum". Because, discourse is basically a (social) action that is loaded with political, economic, power, cultural background etc. To conduct discourse research using critical paradigms, it is necessary to know the research characteristics of critical discourse analiysis, which includes (1) discourse is (social) action, (2) context, (3) historical, (4) power, (5) ideology, and ( 6) (diction) vocabulary basically (a) limits classification, (b) limits the views of a person / group, and (c) marginalizes certain people / groups. Among the available models, the critical discourse analysis model of the van Dijk model is a well-known model in Indonesia.

scholarly journals 'This may not be represented in the curriculum documents’, an analysis of early childhood education curriculum from Ontario college programs.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gosson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
College Programs

This study examines the way in which Early Childhood Educators trained in Ontario college programs are prepared to work with queer populations upon entering the field. This study used post-structuralist, queer feminist, and critical disability theoretical frameworks while analysing the data. A content analysis, informed by critical discourse analysis, was used to assess program documents. Course descriptions from ECE program websites were collected, as well as a total of 33 course outlines from 11 different Ontario college ECE programs, and 9 textbooks identified through the course outlines. Queer content was found to be absent from all but 5 course outlines and 4 textbooks. The need to have queer issues included formally in Ontario ECE curriculum, the othering of queer populations, and the erasure of queer identities are discussed. Key

scholarly journals Competing and Contested Discourses of Citizenship and Civic Praxis

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Jill Koyama
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Civics Education ◽  
Actor Network

In this paper, I utilize complementary features of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to trace and investigate issues of power, materiality, and reproduction embedded within notions of citizenship and civic engagement. I interrogate the often narrow and conservative political and public discourses in Arizona, as well as the xenophobic-driven civics education policy. To these, I juxtapose the enactment of citizenship by youth who use, produce, and share language materials and counter authoritative citizenship and civic discourses, especially, but not exclusively, in online contexts.  I explore the questions: In what ways are discourses of civic engagement and citizenship assembled, interpreted, understood, enacted, and contested in Arizona? What are the relationships between the civics education policy, discursive enactments of citizenship, and the youth of Mexican descent’s online civic practices? I draw on a mixture of textual (language materials) and discursive (events, acts, and practices) data collected in Arizona to argue that youth are doing critical, yet unrecognized and undervalued, forms of civic engagement online, which could be incorporated in the formal civics education curriculum.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis of “Canción sin Miedo” by Vivir Quintana

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Verónica Andrea Escobar Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Feminist Ideology

The feminist movement in Mexico has recently gained attention due to the diverse manifestations along with the country. The song Canción sin miedo (2020) portrays elements that keep a relationship with the feminist ideology, as well as recent events that are depicted in the lyrics. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is presented as an approach to examining the song, using Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model and parallelism analysis. The outcomes of this study suggest that the song was produced as a claim for social justice, but it involves elements that generate a sense of identity for some women because their roles and struggles are depicted in the lyrics, principally femicide. Additionally, the parallelism analysis shows three syntactical structures that compose the body of the text. This examination is also a call for noticing the emergence of violence against women in Mexico.

scholarly journals Through eurocentric logics

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Ernesto Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This study aims to explore the construction of difference in foreign news discourse on culturally similar but politically different non-Western subjects. Applying critical discourse analysis (CDA) together with a critique of Eurocentrism, the study examines difference in newspaper constructions of government supporters and oppositional groups in Venezuela. Discursive differences are evident in the strategies used for constructing the two groups with regard to political rationality and violence. Government supporters are associated with social justice, Venezuela’s poor, dogmatic behavior, and the use of political violence. The opposition, in contrast, is constructed as following a Western democratic rationale that stresses anti-authoritarianism. This group is primarily associated with victims of violence. While the opposition is conveyed as being compatible with Eurocentric values and practices, government supporters to great extent deviate from these norms. Such constructions serve to legitimize politico-ideological undercurrents of Eurocentrism, as the defense of liberalism.

What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
Gwen Bouvier ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The Public

Twitter campaigns attacking those who make racist or xenophobic statements are valuable, raising the public profile of opinions that will not tolerate racism in any form. They also indicate how our major institutions are failing to address important matters of social justice. But there is concern that social media, such as Twitter, tends to extremes, moral outrages, lack of nuance and incivility, which shape how issues become represented. In this paper, using Critical Discourse Analysis, we look at three Twitter hashtags calling-out racist behaviour. We ask how racism and anti-racism is represented on these hashtags? We show how these misrepresent fundamental aspects of racism in society, distracting from, what race theorists would argue, is the most important thing these incidents tell us about racism at this present time. The findings have consequences for all such Twitter social justice campaigns.

Social Justice Through BPATC in Bangladesh Under the Shadow of Colonialism

2022 ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Parimal Roy ◽  
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury ◽  
Haris Abd Wahab ◽  
Rashid Saad
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
The Government

This chapter aims to understand how the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) can ensure social justice through its apex and unique training manuals. Qualitatively and by critical discourse analysis, this discussion shows that existing training guidelines and policies have a deep and robust lineage with coloniality, predominating the fundamental legal aspects of Bangladesh through Colonially Inherited Acts, Rules, and Regulations as well as practices. Can the government ensure the SDGs and a just and right productive, autonomous, and accountable citizen-oriented public service? The Government of Bangladesh may imply the recommendations in policies to ensure social justice in public administration through BPATC.

Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike’s Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 522-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst ◽  
Courtney Szto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
Media Platform

Inspired by assertions of “creeping commercialization” in issues of social justice, this article seeks to address the entanglement of privatization with sport for development and peace initiatives. We look specifically at Nike’s history of “social responsibility” to situate the N7 initiative, for Indigenous health, within a larger landscape of privatized social justice. Critical discourse analysis was used to unpack Nike’s annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. In addition, a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the #DeChief movement, which lobbies against the use of “Native” mascotry, was conducted via the social media platform, Twitter. The authors observed public criticism against Nike’s incongruous business practices in supporting Indigenous health on one hand, and financially benefitting from the sale of harmful Indigenous caricatures on the other.

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