Scientific Literacy for Participation : A Systemic Functional Approach to Analysis of School Science Discourses.

Intro -- Scientific Literacy for Participation: A Systemic Functional Approach to Analysis of School Science Discourses -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgement of Permission to Reproduce Copyrighted Materials -- Chapter 1: An Anatomy of Discourses -- Introduction -- 'Discourse' is Text in Context -- Levels of Meaning: Situation, Genre and Culture -- Metafuntions of Language -- Discourse Analysis and Analysis of Learning Designs -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Functional Grammar: How We Mean -- Introduction -- Ideational Meaning: Construing Experience into Meaning -- Interpersonal Meaning -- Textual Meaning -- Below and Around the Clause -- Using Functional Grammar in Analysis -- Acts of Meaning: Extending the Perspective -- Learning and Participation in Discourses: Outline of Model -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Multimodal Representations -- Introduction -- Similarities and Differences between Visual and Verbal Language -- Visual Grammar -- Affordances of Forms of Representation -- Interacting with Multimodal Representations -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Language of School Science -- Introduction -- The Language of Science -- Experimental Practices of School Science -- Summary -- Chapter 5: The Discourses of Negotiating Complexity -- Introduction -- The Construal of Complexity by Intertextuality -- Acting on Energy Use in a Gaming Environment -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Critical Discourse Analysis -- Introduction -- Tracing Out a Discourse: Images of Science -- Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis -- Ideologies in the Norwegian Core Curriculum -- Summary -- Chapter 7: The Transformation Model Revisited -- Introduction -- The Transformation Model Revisited -- Further Notes on School Science Discourses -- References -- Index.

This book offers a thorough introduction to key ideas in M. A. K. Halliday's systemic functional grammar through examples and practical analysis. Detailed analysis is offered of science textbooks and curriculum documents, classroom talk, experimental work, and students' discussions of complex environmental issues.

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