In a four-year program there is more scope for development: (Thwaite & Rivalland 2009)) describe a unit for fourth year pre-service and practising teachers which focused on discourse analysis, and which they were then able to apply to analysing their own practice.
Yet, this is also the level at which interventions such as those of the MDTP find hardest to engage with effectively (Ferguson 1994), which in fact often leads them to stay focused on discourse rather than practice (Büscher and Dressler 2007; Büscher 2009, 2010a).
While psychoanalysis aims to diagnose how the non-discursive forces, such as, repression or unconscious racial habits, play a significant role in persisting social inequalities, postmodernists tend to focus on discourse (see Derrida 1978, 280).
But shrewd hosts could prevent repetitive (and insoluble) contretemps in favor of variety, and daily topics and special guests could focus the discourse.
Our definition can therefore help to re-focus the discourse on PM by reducing its conceptual vagueness.
The public discourse focused on domestic issues, all but ignoring the Palestinians, Iran, or the turmoil across the border in Syria and Egypt.
Throughout the year public discourse focused on the impact of the civil war as a result of the activities of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the trial in the Special Court of members of the former military government on charges of crimes against humanity.
However, it was focused on procedural discourse of various rituals retold step by step by ritual shamans.
While the illustrations are focused on classroom discourse in schools, it is proposed that the analysis is potentially useful for any pedagogic activity.
We show that risks posed a threat to the identity of the project team, resulting in a discourse focused on attributing responsibility for risks to outsiders and that polarized their relations with stakeholders.
