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Magdalena S Richter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • obstetric fistula policy in nigeria a Critical Discourse Analysis
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018
    Co-Authors: Oluwakemi C Amodu, Bukola Salami, Magdalena S Richter
    Abstract:

    In 2012, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health published its National Strategic Framework for the Elimination of Obstetric Fistula (NSFEOF), 2011–2015. The framework has since lapsed and there is no tangible evidence that the goal of eliminating obstetric fistula was met. To further inform future policy directions on obstetric fistula in Nigeria, this paper explores how the NSFEOF conceptualized obstetric fistula and its related issues, including child marriage and early childbearing. A Critical Discourse Analysis of the policy was performed. We examined four policies in addition to the strategic framework: the Nigerian constitution; the Marriage Act; the Matrimonial Causes Act; and the National Reproductive Health Policy. We used the three phases of Critical Discourse Analysis: textual Analysis, Analysis of Discourse practice, and Analysis of discursive events as instances of sociocultural practice. The Analysis demonstrates that, despite its title, the policy document focuses on reduction rather than elimination of obstetric fistula. The overall orientation of the policy is downstream, with minimal focus on prevention. The policy language suggests victim blaming. Furthermore, the extent to which subnational stakeholders in government and civil society were engaged in decision-making process for developing this policy is ambiguous. Although the policy is ostensibly based on principles of social justice and equity, several rhetorical positions suggest that the Nigerian constitutional environment and justice systems make no real provisions to protect the reproductive rights of girls in accordance with the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” This Analysis establishes that the Nigerian constitution, justice environment and the obstetric fistula policy itself do not demonstrate clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula. Specifically, a clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula would see the constitution and Marriage Act of Nigeria specify an age of consent that is consistent with the agenda to prevent obstetric fistula. Additionally, a policy to end obstetric fistulas in Nigeria must purposefully address the factors creating barrier to women’s access to quality maternal healthcare services. Future policies and programs to eliminate obstetric fistulas should include perspectives of nurses, midwives, researchers and, women’s interest groups.

  • Obstetric fistula policy in Nigeria: a Critical Discourse Analysis
    'Springer Science and Business Media LLC', 2018
    Co-Authors: Oluwakemi C Amodu, Bukola O. Salami, Magdalena S Richter
    Abstract:

    Abstract Background In 2012, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health published its National Strategic Framework for the Elimination of Obstetric Fistula (NSFEOF), 2011–2015. The framework has since lapsed and there is no tangible evidence that the goal of eliminating obstetric fistula was met. To further inform future policy directions on obstetric fistula in Nigeria, this paper explores how the NSFEOF conceptualized obstetric fistula and its related issues, including child marriage and early childbearing. Methods A Critical Discourse Analysis of the policy was performed. We examined four policies in addition to the strategic framework: the Nigerian constitution; the Marriage Act; the Matrimonial Causes Act; and the National Reproductive Health Policy. We used the three phases of Critical Discourse Analysis: textual Analysis, Analysis of Discourse practice, and Analysis of discursive events as instances of sociocultural practice. Results The Analysis demonstrates that, despite its title, the policy document focuses on reduction rather than elimination of obstetric fistula. The overall orientation of the policy is downstream, with minimal focus on prevention. The policy language suggests victim blaming. Furthermore, the extent to which subnational stakeholders in government and civil society were engaged in decision-making process for developing this policy is ambiguous. Although the policy is ostensibly based on principles of social justice and equity, several rhetorical positions suggest that the Nigerian constitutional environment and justice systems make no real provisions to protect the reproductive rights of girls in accordance with the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Conclusion This Analysis establishes that the Nigerian constitution, justice environment and the obstetric fistula policy itself do not demonstrate clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula. Specifically, a clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula would see the constitution and Marriage Act of Nigeria specify an age of consent that is consistent with the agenda to prevent obstetric fistula. Additionally, a policy to end obstetric fistulas in Nigeria must purposefully address the factors creating barrier to women’s access to quality maternal healthcare services. Future policies and programs to eliminate obstetric fistulas should include perspectives of nurses, midwives, researchers and, women’s interest groups

Oluwakemi C Amodu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • obstetric fistula policy in nigeria a Critical Discourse Analysis
    BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018
    Co-Authors: Oluwakemi C Amodu, Bukola Salami, Magdalena S Richter
    Abstract:

    In 2012, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health published its National Strategic Framework for the Elimination of Obstetric Fistula (NSFEOF), 2011–2015. The framework has since lapsed and there is no tangible evidence that the goal of eliminating obstetric fistula was met. To further inform future policy directions on obstetric fistula in Nigeria, this paper explores how the NSFEOF conceptualized obstetric fistula and its related issues, including child marriage and early childbearing. A Critical Discourse Analysis of the policy was performed. We examined four policies in addition to the strategic framework: the Nigerian constitution; the Marriage Act; the Matrimonial Causes Act; and the National Reproductive Health Policy. We used the three phases of Critical Discourse Analysis: textual Analysis, Analysis of Discourse practice, and Analysis of discursive events as instances of sociocultural practice. The Analysis demonstrates that, despite its title, the policy document focuses on reduction rather than elimination of obstetric fistula. The overall orientation of the policy is downstream, with minimal focus on prevention. The policy language suggests victim blaming. Furthermore, the extent to which subnational stakeholders in government and civil society were engaged in decision-making process for developing this policy is ambiguous. Although the policy is ostensibly based on principles of social justice and equity, several rhetorical positions suggest that the Nigerian constitutional environment and justice systems make no real provisions to protect the reproductive rights of girls in accordance with the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” This Analysis establishes that the Nigerian constitution, justice environment and the obstetric fistula policy itself do not demonstrate clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula. Specifically, a clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula would see the constitution and Marriage Act of Nigeria specify an age of consent that is consistent with the agenda to prevent obstetric fistula. Additionally, a policy to end obstetric fistulas in Nigeria must purposefully address the factors creating barrier to women’s access to quality maternal healthcare services. Future policies and programs to eliminate obstetric fistulas should include perspectives of nurses, midwives, researchers and, women’s interest groups.

  • Obstetric fistula policy in Nigeria: a Critical Discourse Analysis
    'Springer Science and Business Media LLC', 2018
    Co-Authors: Oluwakemi C Amodu, Bukola O. Salami, Magdalena S Richter
    Abstract:

    Abstract Background In 2012, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health published its National Strategic Framework for the Elimination of Obstetric Fistula (NSFEOF), 2011–2015. The framework has since lapsed and there is no tangible evidence that the goal of eliminating obstetric fistula was met. To further inform future policy directions on obstetric fistula in Nigeria, this paper explores how the NSFEOF conceptualized obstetric fistula and its related issues, including child marriage and early childbearing. Methods A Critical Discourse Analysis of the policy was performed. We examined four policies in addition to the strategic framework: the Nigerian constitution; the Marriage Act; the Matrimonial Causes Act; and the National Reproductive Health Policy. We used the three phases of Critical Discourse Analysis: textual Analysis, Analysis of Discourse practice, and Analysis of discursive events as instances of sociocultural practice. Results The Analysis demonstrates that, despite its title, the policy document focuses on reduction rather than elimination of obstetric fistula. The overall orientation of the policy is downstream, with minimal focus on prevention. The policy language suggests victim blaming. Furthermore, the extent to which subnational stakeholders in government and civil society were engaged in decision-making process for developing this policy is ambiguous. Although the policy is ostensibly based on principles of social justice and equity, several rhetorical positions suggest that the Nigerian constitutional environment and justice systems make no real provisions to protect the reproductive rights of girls in accordance with the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Conclusion This Analysis establishes that the Nigerian constitution, justice environment and the obstetric fistula policy itself do not demonstrate clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula. Specifically, a clear commitment to eradicating obstetric fistula would see the constitution and Marriage Act of Nigeria specify an age of consent that is consistent with the agenda to prevent obstetric fistula. Additionally, a policy to end obstetric fistulas in Nigeria must purposefully address the factors creating barrier to women’s access to quality maternal healthcare services. Future policies and programs to eliminate obstetric fistulas should include perspectives of nurses, midwives, researchers and, women’s interest groups

Rebecca Rogers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Discourse Analysis in literacy education a review of the literature
    Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
    Co-Authors: Rebecca Rogers, Inda Schaenen
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    This article is a Critical, integrative literature review of scholarship in literacy studies from 2004 to 2012 that draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). We discuss key issues, trends, and criticisms in the field. Our methodology was carried out in three stages. First, we searched educational databases to locate literacy-focused CDA scholarship. Second, we completed an analytic review template for each article and encoded this data into a digital spreadsheet to assess macrotrends in the field. Third, we developed schemata to interpret the complexity of issues related to research design. Our examination of 76 literacy-focused empirical studies and theoretical papers in scholarly journals reveals trends in the questions that researchers find interesting enough to pursue, the theories they find useful, and the kinds of interactions that capture their attention. Our findings demonstrate that CDA scholarship has been conducted in many areas of literacy studies, including policy, academic writing, the preparation of literacy teachers, professional development, textbook content, curricular design, assessment, and bilingual education. We explore four foundational areas in the field that are especially ripe for debate and critique: context, reflexivity, social action, and deconstructive–reconstructive stance toward inquiry. In the discussion, we compare the findings of this literature review with an earlier review published in 2005, reflecting on three decades of CDA in literacy studies. We identify directions for future scholarship.

  • an introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in education
    2011
    Co-Authors: Rebecca Rogers
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    Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in Critical Discourse Analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three major traditions in Critical Discourse studies � Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and multimodal Discourse Analysis -- through the empirical work of leading scholars in the field.

  • Critical Discourse Analysis in education a review of the literature
    Review of Educational Research, 2005
    Co-Authors: Rebecca Rogers, Elizabeth Malancharuvilberkes, Melissa Mosley, Diane Hui, Glynis Garro O Joseph
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    During the past decade educational researchers increasingly have turned to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a set of approaches to answer questions about the relationships between language and society. In this article the authors review the findings of their literature review of CDA in educational research. The findings proceed in the following manner: the multiple ways in which CDA has been defined, the theories of language included in CDA frameworks, the relationship of CDA and context, the question of methods, and issues of reflexivity. The findings illustrate that as educational researchers bring CDA frameworks into educational contexts, they are reshaping the boundaries of CDA.

  • a Critical Discourse Analysis of family literacy practices power in and out of print
    2003
    Co-Authors: Rebecca Rogers
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    Contents: J.P. Gee, Foreword. Preface. Introduction: Participants in the Study and Theoretical Orientations. Methodology. Personal and Institutional Histories. Family Literacy as Apprenticeship. "I'm Her Mother, Not Them." Into the Meeting Room. Through the Eyes of the Institution. The Paradox of Literacy. Appendices: A Brief History of Education in Albany. Data Collection Timetable. Fieldnote Chart. Document Summary Form. Chart of Critical Discourse Analysis Definitions and Codes. Snapshots of Vicky's Remedial Reading Lesson. Committee on Special Education Meeting Transcript. Role of the Researcher.

Hinostroza-paredes Yenny - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Discourse Analysis of University Teacher Educators’ Professionalism in Chilean Teacher Education Policy
    'Education Policy Analysis Archives', 2020
    Co-Authors: Hinostroza-paredes Yenny
    Abstract:

    This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to interrogate the discursive construction of Chilean university teacher educators’ professionalism in government initial teacher education policy and institutional policy enactment documents. The study examines the network of Discourses—new managerialist, quality assurance, performance, functionalist professional development—producing a version of professionalism akin to organizational professionalism. Used as a form of managerial control over teacher educators’ professional practices, such professionalism exacerbates performativity while reducing professional agency opportunities and consistent professional/academic development. Ultimately, this study contributes to the necessary questioning of Chilean ITE policy reform and the need to examine its effects on university TEs’ professional lives and the professional modeling of their student teachers.Peer reviewe

Norman Fairclough - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical policy studies
    Critical Policy Studies, 2013
    Co-Authors: Norman Fairclough
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    This article presents the contribution that Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can make to Critical policy studies through comparison with two other approaches which also advocate a ‘discursive turn’ in policy studies and that have been discussed in the journal: cultural political economy (CPE), and poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (PDA). I suggest that there are significant differences between CDA, CPE and PDA in their view of the discursive turn, and that a version of CDA which integrates argumentation theory and Analysis with CDA can add significantly to the contributions that CPE and PDA might make to policy Analysis. In the Conclusion, I address a suspicion that using argumentation Analysis entails a commitment to Habermasian/Rawlsian ‘deliberative democracy,’ suggesting that argumentation Analysis is also not only consistent with but also necessary for Gramscian approaches to political and policy Analysis, including CPE and PDA.

  • Understanding the new management ideology: a transdisciplinary contribution from Critical Discourse Analysis and new sociology of capitalism
    Discourse & Society, 2002
    Co-Authors: Eve Chiapello, Norman Fairclough
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    Our aim in this article is to explore how one might approach the language of new capitalism working in a transdisciplinary way, bringing together new sociology of capitalism (Chiapello) and Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough). We focus upon 'new management ideology', and in particular on a recent book by a highly influential management 'guru' (Rosabeth Moss Kanter). The article begins with a discussion of new management ideology based particularly upon the work of Boltanski and Chiapello, followed by an outline of the version of Critical Discourse Analysis we draw upon, and an Analysis of a number of extracts from the book. In the conclusion we consider the implications of the Analysis for transdisciplinary research

  • Discourse in late modernity rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis
    1999
    Co-Authors: Lilie Chouliaraki, Norman Fairclough
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    Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that Critical Discourse Analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the social world. It situates Critical Discourse Analysis as a form of Critical social research in relation to diverse theories from the philosophy of science to social theory and from political science to sociology and linguistics. First, the authors clarify the ontological and epistemological assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis - its view of what the social world consists of and how to study it - and, in so doing, point to the connections between Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical social scientific research more generally. Secondly, they relate Critical Discourse Analysis to social theory, by creating a research agenda in contemporary social life on the basis of narratives of late modernity, particularly those of Giddens, Habermas, and Harvey as well as feminist and postmodernist approaches. Thirdly, they show the relevance of sociological work in the Analysis of discursive aspects of social life, drawing on the work of Bourdieu and Bernstein to theorise the dialectic of social reproduction and change, and on post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist work to theorise the dialectic of complexity and homogenisation in contemporary societies. Finally, they discuss the relationship between systemic-functional linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, showing how the analytical strength of each can benefit from the other. * Sets out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding and research agenda for Critical Discourse Analysis * Interdisciplinary in scope * Draws on a broad range of theories and approaches

  • Critical Discourse Analysis the Critical study of language
    1995
    Co-Authors: Norman Fairclough
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    General Introduction: Section A Language, ideology and power Introduction 1. Critical and descriptive goals in Discourse Analysis 2. Language and ideology 3. Semiosis, mediation and ideology: a dialectical view Section B Discourse and social change Introduction 4. Critical Discourse Analysis and the marketization of public Discourse: the universities 5. Discourse, change and hegemony 6. Ideology and identity change in political television Section C Dialectics of Discourse: theoretical developments Introduction 7. Discourse, social theory and social research: the Discourse of welfare reform 8. (with R Jessop, A Sayer) Critical realism and semiosis Section D Methodology 9. A dialectical-relational approach to Critical Discourse Analysis in social research 10. (with Eve Chiapello) Understanding the new management ideology. A transdisciplinary contribution from Critical Discourse Analysis and New Sociology of Capitalism 11. Critical Discourse Analysis in researching language in the New Capitalism: overdetermination, transdisciplinarity and textual Analysis 12. (with Phil Graham) Marx as a Critical Discourse Analyst: The genesis of a Critical method and its relevance to the critique of global capital 13. Critical Discourse Analysis, organizational Discourse, and organizational change Section E Political Discourse Introduction 14. New Labour: a language perspective 15. Democracy and the public sphere in Critical research on Discourse 16. (with Simon Pardoe & Bronislaw Szerszynski) Critical Discourse Analysis and citizenship 17. Political correctness Section F Globalization and 'transition' Introduction 18. Language and Globalization 19. Global capitalism, terrorism and war: a Discourse-analytical perspective 20. Discourse and 'transition' in Central and Eastern Europe Section G Language and education Introduction 21. Critical language awareness and self-identity in education 22. Global capitalism and Critical awareness of language References Index