An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education
...may be of interest to second language teachers interested in employing discourse analysis as a means of describing social relations and empowerment issues in the classroom.—Modern Language Journal...Roger's introduction covers a lot of useful territory....it is good to see that nearly all of the authors in the volume, from diverse academic backgrounds, are educators.—Language in Society...draws upon a range of current sociocultural theories of learning and approaches to critical discourse analysis, and advances both fields by generating new understandings of the relationships among language form and function, social practices, learning, identity, and social change.—Judith W. SolskenUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstThis book is an ideal introduction to methods of critical discourse analysis for graduate research methods courses.—Richard BeachUniversity of MinnesotaImportantly, and unusually, for an education research methods text, this book combines excellent ethnography and policy accounts with detailed explications of analytical routes. Illuminating stories of teachers' work, young people, policy shifts and parents underlie the varied analyses and their insights. This is not simply a how-to text, but rather a book that has important things to say to educators internationally about the contemporary contexts of our work. Rogers' new collection usefully explores emerging criticisms about CDA's blind-spots and limitations. This book will be widely read by teacher educators, educational researchers and students of CDA across the disciplines.—Barbara ComberUniversity of South Australia