We know that teachers’ identities and their ideological assumptions of teaching learning mathematics are critical in influencing thinking about classroom practices. To better understand prospective identity during teacher education, this study investigates how two participants negotiate within the different ideologies they experience education program. This takes position understood terms narra...

Adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andFairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of Passages 1(an American textbook) and First Certificate (a British textbook) to find out whether...

This study aimed at discussing and representing discourse analysis of classroom talk in two contexts. It is significant, since it considers different genres of talk, cultural and social identities, social relations, different ideologies and many other aspects in this analysis. It attempts to analyze the dominant classroom patterns in two contexts. Two cases of study were analyzed in this study:...

1. Initiation of Oppression: At an early point in time, the European colonialists established hierarchical group relations with the peoples they oppressed and exploited for their land and labor. Soon this hierarchy of oppression was explained in racial terms. The subordinated groups were viewed as biologically and culturally inferior races. This racialized oppression has never been eradicated a...

This article reports preliminary survey and interview data from a 3-year study regarding language ideologies related to deaf interpreters (DIs). DIs are professional sign who may work as part of team with hearing interpreters. Survey provide snapshot current DI demographics reflect that most Canadian-born grandparent generation. suggests precarious national ecosystem currently exists in Canada....

In the last decade we have faced important changes in the framework of ideologies at the international level. On the one hand we have seen a consolidation of the awareness upon the environment. On the other hand, since the fall down of the Berlin wall, the world-wide discredit of socialism has grown up, it has bad press. In words of O’Connor (1998: 49) “during the past two or three decades, eco...

BACKGROUND Epigenetics, which is just beginning to attract public attention and policy discussion, challenges conventional understanding of gene-environment interaction and intergenerational inheritance and perhaps much more besides. QUESTION Does epigenetics challenge modern political ideologies? METHODS I analyzed the narratives of obesity and epigenetics recently published in the more li...

In the first part of this paper taken-for-granted hypotheses in linguistic diversity are presented. In the second part the two constellations of globalized ideologies are described constituting paradigms that these hypotheses illustrate: competition and solidarity. In the third part, a condensed version of emerging globalized concerns is given. Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics a...