Fictions for representing and generating semiotic consciousness: the crime story and educational inquiry Gough, Noel 2002, Fictions for representing and generating semiotic consciousness: the crime story and educational inquiry, International journal of applied semiotics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 59-76. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Fictions for representing and generating semiotic consciousness: the crime story and educational inquiry Author(s) Gough, Noel Journal name International journal of applied semiotics Volume number 3 Issue number 2 Start page 59 End page 76 Publisher Atwood Publishing Place of publication Madison, WI Publication date 2002 ISSN 1488-0733 Summary This essay appraises the work of fiction in representing and generating semiotic consciousness in education by examining three intertextual continuities between crime fiction and stories of educational inquiry. First, many reports of educational research resemble detective stories in their quests to determine the (or a) “truth” about something that is problematic or puzzling and this essay describes some of the ways in which the characteristic investigatory methods of fictional detectives resemble forms of educational inquiry. Second, the characteristic ways in which detective stories generate interpretations are compared with the textual strategies deployed in producing meanings and narratives in educational inquiry. Third, recent transformations of both detective fiction and educational inquiry are shown to be comparable — and intertextually linked — manifestations of cultural and semiotic shifts associated with postmodernity. I conclude by suggesting that authors of “anti-detective” crime fiction might provide more appropriate models of educational inquiry than do fictional detectives. Language eng Field of Research 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001440 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Sat, 17 Jun 2017, 23:59:44 EST Fri, 09 May 2014, 14:16:46 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 460 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 07:56:58 EST

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