...she is learning. Discourses, in a more detailed explanation than the one earlier in the chapter, 198 are about what can be said and thought, but also about...both subjectivity and power relations. (Ball, 1990, p. 2) The discourse is dependent, for its proper maintenance, on the often concealed presence or exertion...

...can be sold as a cut-price economy version. Ball, in exploring the discourse of policy, notes that. Discourses are about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, where and with what authority. Discourses embody the meaning and use of propositions and words. (1994,...

...cure for its ailments. Disciplinary and pastoral power are embedded in discourses. Ball argues that discourses are about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, where and with what authority. Discourses embody meaning and social relationships, they constitute...

...is to look at writing about 'discourses'. Stephen Ball explains 'discourses' in the following way: Discourses are about what can be said and thought,...they constitute both subjectivity and power relations Thus the possibilities for meaning and for definition, are pre-empted through the social and institutional...

...concept of 'discourses' as identified by Foucault: Discourses are about what can be said and what can be thought, but also about who can speak, when. and with...what authority. Discourses embody meaning and social relations, they constitute both subjectivity and power relations . . . Thus the possibilities for meaning...

...discourse generally employ this dual problematic. So, Stephen Ball (1990:17-18) describes discourses as 'about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, where and with what authority'. This necessarily draws attention to both the power of discourse to...

...positions of power, and they construct the 'realities' within which we live. As Ball (1990a, p. 2) says 'Discourses are about what can be said and thought,...about who can speak, when, and with what authority.' Thus, the discourse of medicine is normally taken to be a neutral language which expresses the current...

...Discourses are . . . about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, where and with what authority. Discourses embody meaning...they constitute both subjectivity and power relations . . . Meanings thus arise not from language but from institutional practices, from power relations,...

...and the importance of defining the basic ways in which people think about issues. As Ball puts it, Discourses are ... about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, where and with what authority. Discourses embody meaning and social relationships, they constitute...

...of defining the basic ways in which people think about issues. As Ball puts it. Discoutses ate ... about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, whete and with what authotity. Discoutses embody meaning and social telationships, they constitute...