Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

From 'ritual' to 'mindfulness': Policy and pedagogic positioning

Adams, Paul

Authors

Paul Adams



Abstract

Schools and professionals respond to statute in different ways. However,professional activity is more than mediated response to policy. Versions ofpedagogy are not simply envisaged on high and enacted in the workplace. Thispaper examines how professional views formulate policy imperatives. It proposesthat to understand pedagogy requires an understanding of the ways in whichprofessional selves are realised in relation to the policy formation process. To dothis, positioning theory is used to describe how practice produces policy.Accordingly, the paper examines the dynamic interplay between: first, the storylines unfolding within and outside school; second, the positions adoptedby individuals in the course of pedagogic decision-making. Third, the illocutionary(that achieved in saying something) and perlocutionary (that achieved bysaying something) effects of language. Following this 'positioning triad', the paperproposes 'pedagogy as ritual' and 'pedagogy as mindfulness' and how these arerepresentative, respectively, of limiting and delimiting pedagogic discourses. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Citation

Adams, P. (2011). From 'ritual' to 'mindfulness': Policy and pedagogic positioning. Discourse, 32(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2011.537071

Online Publication Date Jan 15, 2011
Publication Date Jun 2, 2011
Deposit Date Nov 13, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Discourse
Print ISSN 0159-6306
Electronic ISSN 1469-3739
Publisher Taylor and Francis
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 1
Pages 57-69
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2011.537071
Keywords Linguistics and Language; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Education
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/462605
Additional Information This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education on 15th January 2011, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2011.537071

Files





You might also like



Downloadable Citations