Talk and Texts at Work: Beyond language and literacy skills

dc.creator	Hermine Scheeres
dc.date	2011-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:47Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:47Z
dc.identifier	1441-0559
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d93f8d8bebe94903a60c9f9a88982165
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15510
dc.description	<p class="LNSText"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">In this paper I discuss changing work practices in post-bureaucratic organisations (Heckscher and Donellon 1994, Iedema 2003) as a move from a focus on how those in control formulate what is to happen at the level of work, towards requiring workers to verbalise how they see themselves as being able to contribute to the organisation. Workers are increasingly asked to talk about their work, and to negotiate their understandings of their work with others in the workplace – they are becoming discourse workers. This discourse work is integral to the increasing textualisation of work. These work practices are imbued with tensions as workers try to make sense of, and learn, new ways of ‘being’ a worker, and an important site of this struggle and learning is working in teams. </span></p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Technology, Sydney
dc.relation	http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/2202
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1441-0559
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2011)
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Talk and Texts at Work: Beyond language and literacy skills
dc.type	article