Discourse Analysis Papers

The Overlapping Science Education Community

Introduction

An important part of my life has always been my desire to help others. This was the reason I chose to major in Education, more specifically Science Education. I wanted to be able to give students the opportunity to learn and assist them in their academic journey. The community of educators is an example of a discourse community. Jonathan Swales, in his article “Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings”, outlines the different aspects of a discourse communities; including common goals, common ways of doing, and a threshold of membership. Throughout my research, I learned about these different aspects within the Education community and how the Education community overlaps with the Science community to form the Science Education community.

Methodology

To better understand the Education

This article shows this goal by advocating for greater parent-teacher involvement to influence student success. This shows how teachers are willing to work with parents and families to help influence a student to succeed. This goal was also shown in Erin E. Adkins’ project “Literacy-Supportive Environments”. This paper shows this goal by explaining how teachers can set up literacy supportive environments for children. This shows how committed teachers are to developing good learning environments for students and helping them succeed. However, Dr. Francis Broadway offered a different perspective on the goals of teachers. He stated that teachers work to create obedient members of society that comply to the ideas that society deems to be important. I believe that this goal can be interpreted to the same as the others, helping a student succeed. Teachers creating an obedient student helps them succeed by teaching them what they must do to succeed and advocating for their success.

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