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ERIC Number: EJ677576
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-1926
The Meaning of Action in Learning and Teaching.
Franks, Anton; Jewitt, Carey
British Educational Research Journal, v27 n2 p201-18 Apr 2001
Highlights significance of analysis of organized action within educational research. Describes and demonstrates an analytical approach to action applicable to the classroom, developed from approaches to analysis of bodily communication and action in drama education, and from new approaches to rhetoric that draw on social semiotic theories of making meaning. (BT)
Descriptors: Body Language, Classroom Techniques, Communication Research, Drama, Educational Research, Rhetoric, Secondary Education, Semiotics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Action Theory; Analytic Approach; Meaning Construction
Note: The British Educational Research Journal is a refereed journal.