Five-step discourse mapping procedure for representing a contested knowledge debate¶

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Description¶

The paper offers a implementable recipe for social cartography: choose the debate to map; select the widest range of texts and translate their defining rhetorical characteristics; identify the range of positions on chosen ontological axes; locate and interrelate textual communities while "resisting all modernist urges to box-in or lay down a grid"; and field test the map with the communities involved, re-mapping as desired. The author presents this "cookbook" fashion process as an oppositional postmodern strategy that translates across interacting sites of material inscriptions.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Access to the texts constructing the debate and participation of the mapped knowledge communities in field testing

Constraints¶

• The author acknowledges colleagues' horror at the cookbook format and Watson's warning that planners may dismiss such maps as esoteric

Target Learners¶

• education researchers undertaking discourse analysis

Target Learning Goals¶

• representing multiperspectival debates spatially

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Key Sources¶

• Paulston, Rolland G. (1999). Comparative Education After Postmodernity: Occasional Paper Series. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED430912