1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782136703321

Autore

Clarke Matthew <1964->

Titolo

Language teacher identities [[electronic resource] ] : co-constructing discourse and community / / Matthew Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon, UK ; ; Buffalo [NY], : Multilingual Matters, c2008

ISBN

1-84769-954-5

1-281-87848-0

9786611878481

1-84769-083-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

New perspectives on language and education

Classificazione

HD 158

Disciplina

428.007105357

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - United Arab Emirates

English language - Study and teaching - Arabic speakers

English teachers - Training of - United Arab Emirates

English language - United Arab Emirates

Women - Education - United Arab Emirates

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Discourse, Identity and Community -- 2. The Discursive Context -- 3. The Formation of a Community of Practice -- 4. The Discursive Construction of Systems of Knowledge and Belief -- 5. The Discursive Construction of Interpersonal Relations -- 6. The Discursive Construction of Intrapersonal Identity -- 7. Summary of Findings and Future Directions -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Set in the rapidly changing world of the contemporary United Arab Emirates and bringing together detailed linguistic analysis with cutting edge social theory, this book explores the development of the first cohort of students to complete a new Bachelor of Education in English language teaching, theorizing the students’ learning to teach in terms of the discursive construction of a teaching identity within an evolving community of practice. Both a study of the influence of issues such as



gender and nationalism in language teacher education in the Middle East, as well as of the power of discourse and community in shaping identity, this book will be of relevance to anyone working in teacher education as well as to those with an interest in theorizations of discourse and identity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791946003321

Autore

Robinson Lucy (Professor of history)

Titolo

Gay men and the left in post-war Britain [[electronic resource] ] : how the personal got political / / Lucy Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-78170-159-8

1-84779-233-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Critical labour movement studies

Disciplina

320.0866420941

Soggetti

Gay men - Political activity - Great Britain

Gay liberation movement - Great Britain

Politics, Practical - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Politics and culture: homosexuality and the Left in post-war Britain -- Reporting change: law reform, homosexual identity and the role of counter-culture -- Gay liberation 1969-73: praxis, protest and performance -- The Left gets personal: identity, performance and the Left 1972-79 -- The next big thing: from Gay Left Collective to Greater London Council, paedophile identity and the state of the Left -- Confronting Thatcher: the Bermondsey by-election, lesbians and gays support the miners and AIDS activism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling



with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first individually within existing organisations and later rejecting formal political structures altogether. Culture, performance and identity took over from economics and class struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the politics of sexua