Talk about careers in science / / edited by Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu.

• Superior document: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ; Volume 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Roth, Wolff-Michael,; Xu, Peiling,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: New directions in mathematics and science education ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Non scholae sed vitae discimus, we learn for life rather than for school. In this Roman saying, the ultimate reason for school is recognized as being a preparation for life. High school science, too, is a preparation for life, the possible careers students identify, and for defining possible future Selves. In this book, the contributors take one dataset as their object of scholarship informed by discursive psychology, Bakhtin, and poststructural positions to investigate the particulars of the language used in interviews about possible careers conducted both before and after an internship in a university science laboratory. Across this collection, some contributors focus on data driven analyses in which the authors present more macro-perspectives on the use of language in science career talk, whereas others see the data using particular lenses that provide intelligible and fruitful perspectives on what and how students and interviewer talk careers in science. Other contributors propose to transform the database into different representations that allows researchers to single out and demonstrate particular dimensions of discourse. Thus, these contributions roughly fall into three categories that are treated under the sections entitled “Discourse Analyses of Career Talk,” “Discursive Lenses and Foci,” and “Innovations in Theory, Method, and Representation of Career Talk Research.”.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu -- Talking Science Careers / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu -- Discourse Analyses of Career Talk / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu -- Interpretative Repertoires for Talking (About) Science-Related Careers / Pei-Ling Hsu and Wolff-Michael Roth -- “I Want to Be a Doctor” / Norah Mcrae -- “I Don’t Know” / Alfredo Bautista -- Talking Learning in Career Talk / Cathryn (Katy) Connelly -- Childhood Memories in Career Plans / Alena Kottová -- The Psychological Rewards of Career Path Choices / Kathleen Hall -- Discursive Lenses and Foci / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu -- “I Went to Bamfield Last Summer” / Pei-Ling Hsu -- What is Alice Trying to Tell us? / Scott Marsden -- Career Metaphors We Live By / Ching-Yi Wu -- Calculating the Odds / Natalia Delgado -- Career Talk as Folktale / Vivian M. Collyer -- Innovations in Theory, Method, & Representation of Career Talk Research / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu -- Talking Careers, Career Talk / Wolff-Michael Roth -- Talking Careers: Talking Poetry / Sheila Simpkins -- Daughter Not Like Mother / David Raju -- “I Wouldn’t Want to be a Pilot or Surgeon because it Seems too Risky to me” / Wolff-Michael Roth -- Metalogue on Career Talk and its Study / Wolff-Michael Roth , Pei-Ling Hsu , Alfredo Bautista , Vivian M. Collyer , Cathryn (Katy) Connelly , Natalia Delgado , Gholam Reza Emad , Kathleen Hall , Alena Kottová , Jean-François Maheux , Scott Marsden , Norah Mcrae , David Raju , Sheila Simpkins and Ching-Yi Wu -- References / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu -- Index / Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu.