کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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366287 | 621363 | 2012 | 12 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
In this article, I examine the literacy practices of a high school-based human rights club. I investigate how the group engages in certain kinds of textual production to sponsor and arrange advisory sessions (school-wide meetings between teachers and small groups of students). More specifically, I consider how the club adapts school genres to mediate advisory sessions and to advance its visions of human rights and international relations. I describe how students collaborate both to develop a strategy for negotiating the school bureaucracy and to produce texts that will elicit institutional action. Also, I present a discourse analysis of one student-authored text crucial to the mediation of advisory meetings. I argue that students’ knowledge of situations (e.g. advisory sessions) shapes how they adapt institutional genres and advance their visions of the world.
► The literacy practices of school-based activist groups have been under-researched.
► Activists adapt genres to build institutional sites in accordance with their beliefs.
► Activists circulate their visions of the world through generic forms.
► Knowledge of situations is a key determinant of activists’ discursive performances.
Journal: Linguistics and Education - Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 250–261