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.
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Fictions for representing and generating semiotic consciousness: the crime story and educational inquiry
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.
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130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
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