{"id":1937,"date":"2011-04-17T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2011-04-17T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T20:23:13","slug":"reflexivity-in-he-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Reflexivity in HE \/ ethnography- book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some time back, Paul Smith forwarded these reviews\/alerts to me from a colleague in one of the online groups he belongs to (Academic Litercy\/ies?):<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turner, Joan (2011) <em>Language in the Academy: Cultural Reflexivity and Intercultural Dynamics. <\/em>Bristol , Buffalo, Toronto: Multilinguial Matters<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Available in paperback and hardback [The book is part of the Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education series]. An impressive innovative book now available on Amazon. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is impressively referenced\u00a0&#8211; a good source of important literature &#8211; but more important I \u00a0think is the original line of argument and use of classroom data. Arguing against the discourse of remediation that tends to dominate classroom practice in the academy Joan draws on \u00a0the Socratic tradition of dialogue and the spatial relations of teaching and learning in the Confucuian\/Taoist tradition \u00a0in her theoretically and metaphorically rich accounts \u00a0of the complexity in tutor-student encounters in\u00a0 university classrooms in which there are large numbers of \u2018international\u2019 students. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I particularly like Joan\u2019s use of \u2018languaging \u2018 to suggest \u2018language as dynamic practice\u2019 and the fact that\u00a0 the book is evidence of intellect at work &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>The blurb in the catalogues states<\/em>: \u2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This book takes a critical look at why issues of language in higher education are routinely marginalised, despite the growing internationalisation of universities. It locates the construction of rhetorical norms and values for academic writing within wider cultural practices ansd power relations, and observes\u00a0 the transformative dynamic of intercultural communication in the contemporary western academy (paperback \u00a324.95)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Blommaert,\u00a0 Jan &amp; Dong, Jie (2010) <em>Ethnographic Fieldwork: A beginner\u2019s guide<\/em>. Multilingual Matters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The blurb states :\u2019This immensely accessible and readable book engages the reader from beginning to end in a style which is informal, informative and intellectually fulfilling. Ethnography is presented as a democratic process, open to multiple and layered interpretastions, recording uniquely situated realities through specialised analysis. Blommaert and Dong offer invaluable practical advice , guiding the reader through the sequences of\u00a0 the ethnographic research process. They successfully illustrate the fundamentals of ethnographic fieldwork while presenting a set of splendid resources for both beginner researcher and the experienced ethnographer\u2019 (Angela Creese) The anonymous addition to Angela\u2019s comments \u00a0states: \u2018This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don\u2019t know much about to begin with , facilitated by theoretical and methodological instruments. The book provides an easy to read introduction to quite complex ideas about knowledge and the practices in which we gather it\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, Paul Smith forwarded these reviews\/alerts to me from a colleague in one of the online groups he belongs to (Academic Litercy\/ies?): Turner, Joan (2011) Language in the Academy: Cultural Reflexivity and Intercultural Dynamics. Bristol , Buffalo, Toronto: Multilinguial Matters Available in paperback and hardback [The book is part of the Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education series]. 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