Publications

Publication details [#11727]

Tannock, Stuart. 1997. Positioning the Worker: Discursive Practice in a Workplace Literacy Program. Discourse & Society 8 (1) : 85–116. 32 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | ideology | literacy, teaching of | worker

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Analysis of classroom interaction indicated that the instructor of a specific workplace literacy program created classroom situations promoting the company's ideology by outlining the literacy program's mission statement in detail, while treating the mission statement of the workers' union vaguely.