Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4925
Title: Discourse, Gender and Identity in Environmental Education: An Analysis of Australian Online Recruitment Advertisements
Contributor(s): Hardy, Joy  (author)
Publication Date: 2009
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4925
Abstract: Whilst environmental education has fervently engaged the kind of 'environmental identities' it ought to endorse and strive to cultivate, the qualifier 'environmental' has been treated as problematic, whereas 'identity' has been largely treated as intuitive and unproblematic. As Payne (2000) notes: "There is a major 'lack' in the discourse of environmental education research. Too little in environmental education ... has been said directly about 'identity'" (p. 68). The lack to which Payne refers is an under-theorisation rather than a complete absence. This paper responds to the under-theorisation by focusing on the role of organisational discourse in identity construction and the preferred subject positions that are being constructed. The paper analyses a corpus constructed from recruitment advertisements for environmental education positions placed with major Australian online recruitment agencies. Using Althusser's theory of 'interpellation' (1977) as the overarching conceptual framework, the analysis employs content analysis (Crowl, 1993), critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1995) and APPRAISAL (Martin & Rose, 2007; Martin and White, 2007) to analyse questions embedded within the advertisements. This facilitates the explication of the discursive construction of organisational versions of the preferred environmental education subject. The questions that are analysed invariably construct an affectual subject in this privileged textual location.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 4(7), p. 183-191
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1833-1882
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
050203 Environmental Education and Extension
139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940502 Professions and Professionalisation
939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://thesocialsciences.com/journal
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