Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
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An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Academic disciplines are shaped by social practices rather than just facts.
This quote by James Paul Gee emphasizes that academic disciplines are not merely a collection of facts and principles; they are dynamic constructs shaped by social interactions and practices over time. The way knowledge is generated, debated, and transformed is rooted in the unique social contexts and methods that characterize each discipline, including how we think, communicate, and perform within that domain.
Themes
EducationSocial PracticesKnowledgeLearningContent
In practice
Example use cases
In a lecture about interdisciplinary studies, you might use this quote to highlight the importance of social context in education.
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