If you have an appetite for public appearances, teaching or political discourse, that helps.
Thus far in 2014, I've spent every Sunday morning teaching the Upper Room Discourse to my congregation, The Donelson Fellowship, in Nashville.
At the outset of this project, we were focused on gaining insight into the stated and formally endorsed curriculum, and while participants provided some information about formal teaching, the dominant discourse focused on informal influences in clinical practice settings.
Sustainability shouldn't be taught as an abstract theory amongst a group of people that all basically come from the same background, it should be taught as a discourse amongst people with diverse experiences of its practical application.
Further, institutions designed to facilitate the literacy of children and families construct identical discourses; teaching children "to read" becomes secondary to the primary goal of reshaping the moral character of families, particularly nonmainstream and minoritized families.
Based on their answers for the overall questions (the themes of the classroom observations), the teachers were gradually encouraged to zoom in on, analyse, and evaluate teaching and learning discourses in detail.
Alongside courses in phonology, generative grammar and schools of linguistics that no one else wanted to teach, I early on developed a course on functional varieties of language in our MA Applied program, and over time grasped opportunities to teach functional grammar, discourse analysis, register and genre theory and media discourse as well.
They create public discourse, teach our youth the importance of identity, illustrate that sexual orientation does not link to sporting prowess and, above all, creates possibilities for other gay athletes to reveal their sexuality.
Al Gore was taught formal intellectual policy discourse at his father's knee.
Discourse analysis teaches us that ideas are the magmatic force of public life, rumbling beneath the feet of the mighty, shaping their actions and the popular response.
