Browsing by Author "Proctor, Elspeth"

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    Talking democracy in Grade 7 : a discourse analysis of SRC practice in a primary school
    (2001) Proctor, Elspeth; Young, Douglas; Thesen, Lucia
    My research set out to clarify to what extent democracy education is an identifiable and teachable concept in Curriculum 2005 and to find pedagogically useful ways of conceptualising and teaching active democratic participation. I chose a two-staged explorative qualitative research framework, informed by the New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, with Grade 7 learners in a primary school. I identified school Student Representative Councils (SRC's) as a potential site for 'democracy education-in-action'.