The design and delivery of formal coach education learning opportunities appear to be permeated by taken-for-granted discourses. These discourses exercise a systemised influence on the social construction coaches’ professional knowledge, with potentially problematic consequences. Adopting discursive methodology using discourse analysis, this study explored ways in which facilitators coaches hig...

At higher education institutions (HEI), which for centuries served only to educate the elite, composition of student body is increasingly changing towards greater social and cultural diversity. Students’ differences are also focus this article, but not with a specific emphasis on preselected categories. Instead, article asks how students in teaching (HE) represented print media professional dis...

Recent studies illustrates that big data analysis now plays a growing importance on business, politics, technology, academic researches, discursive construction of nation, etc. Big was applied in broad fields, including translating Chinese literary classics. By using qualitative method, this article focuses current and classics, impact strategies for classics global communication, so as to bett...

This article outlines one tradition of qualitative research in social psychology, that of discourse analysis and discursive research. It proposes that the tradition offers an alternative conceptualisation of a psychosocial subject to accounts which draw on psychoanalytic theorising. The article reviews some of the problems around conceptualising a subject in discursive terms, then sets out some...

In recent developments in the realism-constructionism debate, attempts have been made by individual scholars on both sides to assimilate the other side’s insights into one’s own position. With respect to epistemology, such attempts have so far failed. Situated in this context, this article proposes a general approach in which valid insights from constructionism, discourse theory, and pragmatist...