This study aimed to investigate discourse about death in institutional archives (re)visited to collect sources of research. The theoretical question revolves around discourse about . Theories and concepts from the area Linguistics, Letters and Arts and basic area Linguistics make up the theoretical basis, with an emphasis on the French School of Discourse Analysis. The area of Applied Social Sciences , basic area Information Sciences, is also contemplated in order to account for issues of archiving and information. Springing from these disparate fields, Archiving and Discourse Analysis, we attempted to read and analyze the selected materiality, by creating a temporal and chronological framework, with a focus on the city of Santa Maria, RS, and taking the year 1896 as a reference for the deaths. Data collected consisted of: 1) death certificates produced/received by the Municipal Intendance and kept at the Municipal Historical Archive of Santa Maria; 2) death records recorded at the Cathedral and kept in the archdiocese archive; and 3) death records made at the Registry Office. Two hundred and seventy-five reports of death were found for 1896, with the Municipal Intendance of Santa Maria (167), having the greatest number, followed by the catholic cathedral (64) and, finally, the Registry Office of Santa Maria (44). A comparison among the three sets was performed, to obtain a total of 197 names of different people. The names of the deceased with reports common to all three entities made up the empirical corpus (12 deaths and respective reports). The study considered death notices, news articles and personal accounts or tributes published in the newspaper regarding these deaths extracted from a local newspaper that circulated during the year studied, as well as a postmortem inventory, the only one of its kind found, which made part of the Public Archive of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Using discourse analysis, extracts from the discursive field were used to demonstrate the five domains of discourse about death, elected from their incidence: medical, religious, judicial, journalistic and private discourse, proposed in this dissertation as a new category. Discursive sequences that made up the corpus were analyzed within these discourses about death. The perception of the meaning of words within language use and the relation between historicity and discourse are constants in the corpus. / Este trabalho procura compreender o discurso sobre a morte encontrado nos arquivos institucionais visitados para reunir fontes de pesquisa. A questão teórica gira em torno do discurso sobre . São consideradas como base da análise as teorias e noções da área de Linguística, Letras e Artes , área básica Linguística , trabalhando com a Análise de Discurso de Linha Francesa. A área de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas , área básica Ciência da Informação , também é vislumbrada ao trabalhar com as ideias de arquivologia e informação. A partir do conhecimento desses campos disciplinares distintos: Análise de Discurso e Arquivologia, é feito um gesto de leitura e análise na materialidade selecionada. Para tanto, foi realizado um enquadramento temporal e cronológico, privilegiando Santa Maria, RS, e tendo 1896 como ano referência das mortes. São feitos levantamentos de: 1) atestados de óbito produzidos/recebidos pela Intendência Municipal e mantidos no acervo do Fundo Intendência do Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Santa Maria; 2) registros de óbito realizados na Catedral e guardados no Arquivo da Arquidiocese; e 3) registros feitos nos livros do Cartório. Foram encontradas 275 comunicações de morte para 1896. O local com maior número de comunicações é a Intendência de Santa Maria (167), seguido da Catedral católica da mesma cidade (64) e, por último, o Cartório de Registro de Santa Maria (44). Foi feita uma comparação entre os três conjuntos, chegando ao nome de 197 diferentes pessoas. Buscou-se reconhecer aqueles falecidos comuns aos três conjuntos, formando, assim, o corpus empírico da tese (com 12 mortos e suas comunicações). A pesquisa foi complementada por notas, notícias e A pedidos sobre essas mortes extraídos de um jornal local que circulava no ano da pesquisa, bem como por um inventário post-mortem, o único encontrado, e que faz parte do acervo do Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Para proceder ao gesto analítico, utilizando as bases da Análise de Discurso, foram realizados recortes do campo discursivo de referência baseado em cinco domínios de discurso sobre a morte, eleitos a partir de sua incidência: o discurso médico, o religioso, o jurídico, o jornalístico e o de privacidade, proposto na tese como nova categoria. Neles foram recortadas as sequências discursivas que formam o corpus discursivo onde se observou o discurso sobre a morte. A movência dos sentidos das palavras no funcionamento da linguagem e a relação entre historicidade e discurso são presenças constantes.

Cette thèse en analyse du discours a pour objectif l'analyse comparative et l'analyse critique du discours sur l'allaitement dans deux communautés ethnolinguistiques différentes : la France et l'Allemagne. La question à l'origine de notre recherche est la suivante : choisir d'allaiter est-il réellement un choix ou les femmes suivent-elles le chemin tracé par les auteurs ? Nous avons réuni un corpus composé de brochures institutionnelles et de guides parentaux. Dans notre travail, nous avons relevé la façon dont les auteurs de ces guides et brochures se placent dans leur discours ainsi que les arguments qu'ils mettent en avant afin de convaincre les femmes d'allaiter. L'étude des caractérisations du lait et de l'allaitement dans notre corpus de textes franco-allemands nous a permis de montrer que ces auteurs laissent peu de place au choix d'allaiter même si cette absence relative de choix ne se traduit pas de la même manière dans les deux communautés ethnolinguistiques étudiées. / The objective of this thesis in discourse analysis is a critical and comparative analysis of discourses about breastfeeding in two different ethnolinguistic communities: France and Germany. The original research question is: is the option of breastfeeding a real choice or do women follow the path lined up by authors ? We gathered a corpus composed of institutional booklets and parent's manuals. In our research, we have considered how the authors of these guides and booklets are positioning themselves in their discourses and the arguments put forward to convince women to breastfeed. The study of milk and breastfeeding characterizations in our corpus of French and German texts has allowed us to show that these authors leave little opportunity to choosing breastfeeding, even if this lack of choice is translated in a different way in the two ethnolinguistic communities studied.

[pt] Este estudo enfoca o programa Salas de Leitura da rede municipal do Rio de Janeiro. Seu principal objetivo é analisar as atividades realizadas nesses espaços, particularmente, as práticas instituídas com o texto literário. Para contextualizar historicamente as Salas de Leitura, analisei os documentos oficiais que regulamentam o programa desde a sua implantação. Desta forma, verifiquei que as Salas de Leitura deixaram de ser espaços privilegiados de práticas leitoras de textos literários, como eram em sua origem, para se tornarem espaços multimidiáticos. Além da análise documental, observei duas Salas de Leitura e realizei entrevistas com professores e alunos dessas escolas. Analisando o campo, pude perceber que coexistem diferentes concepções e expectativas em relação ao programa. Situo esta pesquisa numa perspectiva sócio-histórica, em que as idéias de Mikhail Bakhtin são importantes referenciais. / [en] This study focus The Reading Class experience of the public schools in Rio de Janeiro city. Its main objective is to analyze the activities that take held in those schools, chiefly, the practices instituted with the literary text. In order to sign the historical context of the reading classes I have analyzed the official documents that regularize the program since its implementation. So I have verified that the reading classes would not be anymore privileged spaces for the reading practices of literary texts, as they were in the origin, to be nowadays multimedia spaces. Besides the documental analyses, I have observed two reading classes and I have made a lot of interviews with teachers and students of those schools. With the field research, I could verify that there are different conceptions and expectations concern the program. I understand this kind of search under a socio-historical perspective, where Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas are important statements.

Nossa proposta de investigar o discurso sobre o livro didático de inglês toca inevitavelmente na questão do discurso de verdade do livro didático. Direcionada pela hipótese de que o poder de discurso de verdade do livro didático de inglês (LDI) é construído pelos dizeres acerca do LDI, nossa pesquisa dedica-se a estudar o funcionamento desse que chamamos de discurso sobre o LDI e os efeitos de sentido que ele produz. Mais especificamente, estudamos os dizeres sobre o LDI adotado na escola pública brasileira a partir do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático, PNLD 2011. Apesar de o LDI já ter sido adotado localmente na rede pública por algumas escolas ou alguns professores, é através do PNLD 2011 que o governo federal, pela primeira vez, propõe títulos a serem adotados em âmbito nacional, patrocinando o custo desses materiais consumíveis, para o ensino de língua estrangeira (espanhol e inglês). Para esta investigação, apoiamos nossas observações nos conceitos pertinentes à linha pecheutiana de Análise do Discurso. Esses conceitos fundamentam a nossa análise dos dizeres do corpus de pesquisa, formado por três segmentos. O segmento oficial compreende os principais documentos referentes ao PNDL 2011. O segmento midiático foi composto por textos disponibilizados na internet, publicados por agências de notícias governamentais e não governamentais e por sites de escolas e associações. O segmento profissional contou com as respostas de professores de inglês do 6º ao 9º ano da rede pública de ensino. Essas respostas foram coletadas em dois momentos através de questionários de pesquisa. No primeiro momento, as coleções que compuseram o PNLD 2011 ainda não eram conhecidas pelos professores respondentes. No segundo momento, os professores que responderam ao segundo questionário já utilizavam as coleções de inglês do PNLD 2011. A análise do discurso sobre o livro didático de inglês nos possibilitou a percepção de efeitos que apontam ao funcionamento do LDI como verdade por ser representado como tal pelo discurso que fala sobre ele. Através da análise, observamos também efeitos característicos do funcionamento das sociedades de controle, como prevista por Michel Foucault ([1979] 2004) e discutida por Gilles Deleuze ([1990] 1992). No eixo do interdiscurso, percebemos nos enunciados os princípios moduladores, garantindo o adiamento do fim, demandando atualizações contínuas, motivando o indivíduo e assegurando o controle. No eixo do intradiscurso, a materialidade linguística mostrou-se frequentemente marcada pela modalização dos dizeres, suavizando-os e suscitando múltiplas possibilidades. Os efeitos percebidos parecem funcionar como os princípios moduladores, formulados por Deleuze ([1990] 1992), que marcam a relação saber-poder funcionando já nos moldes da sociedade de controle / Our aim to investigate the discourse about the English textbook inevitably touches on the issue of the textbook as a discourse of truth. Driven by the hypothesis that the power of discourse of truth, often attributed to the textbook, is built by the discourse which speaks about the textbook, our research aims to study the functioning mode and the effects of that discourse which we name discourse about the English textbook. Although English textbooks have been adopted in some courses by some public school teachers here and there, this is the first time that the Brazilian federal government has proposed the nation-wide adoption of foreign language textbooks (English and/or Spanish) through the National Textbook Program for the year of 2011 (PNLD 2011) by selecting titles for teachers to choose from and by bearing all the expenses involved in the process. Our research follows the conceptualization of Discourse Analysis as established by Michel Pêcheux. Those concepts guide the analysis of the excerpts in our research corpus, which is composed of three segments. The official discourse segment contains excerpts from the most relevant documents issued by the government on the PNLD 2011. The media discourse segment comprises online news and articles issued by governmental as well as non-governmental news agencies and by schools and associations sites. The professional discourse segment holds the answers provided by public school teachers of English (6th to 9th grades) to two questionnaires on the adoption of the English textbook. Their answers were collected in two distinct moments. The first questionnaire was answered by the teachers before textbook collections were pre-selected to integrate the PNLD 2011. The second questionnaire was answered by teachers who already used the PNLD 2011 textbooks. The analysis of the discourse about the English textbook led us to the perception of effects which confirm the functioning of the English textbook as a discourse of truth since it is represented as such by the discourse about it. Through discourse analysis, we have also observed effects which are typical of the functioning mode of societies of control, as briefly defined by Michel Foucault ([1979] 2004) and further contended by Gilles Deleuze ([1990] 1992). In the interdiscourse axis, modulating principles were observed in enouncements, as they ensure limitless postponements, demand continuous updating, motivate the individual and ensure control. In the intradiscourse axis, the linguistic materiality often presented excerpts marked by modalization, which softens the remarks and gives rise to multiple possibilities. The effects observed seem to work as modulating principles, as formulated by Deleuze ([1990] 1992), which confirms that the relationship between power and knowledge is already functioning in the modes of societies of control

Nossa proposta de investigar o discurso sobre o livro didático de inglês toca inevitavelmente na questão do discurso de verdade do livro didático. Direcionada pela hipótese de que o poder de discurso de verdade do livro didático de inglês (LDI) é construído pelos dizeres acerca do LDI, nossa pesquisa dedica-se a estudar o funcionamento desse que chamamos de discurso sobre o LDI e os efeitos de sentido que ele produz. Mais especificamente, estudamos os dizeres sobre o LDI adotado na escola pública brasileira a partir do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático, PNLD 2011. Apesar de o LDI já ter sido adotado localmente na rede pública por algumas escolas ou alguns professores, é através do PNLD 2011 que o governo federal, pela primeira vez, propõe títulos a serem adotados em âmbito nacional, patrocinando o custo desses materiais consumíveis, para o ensino de língua estrangeira (espanhol e inglês). Para esta investigação, apoiamos nossas observações nos conceitos pertinentes à linha pecheutiana de Análise do Discurso. Esses conceitos fundamentam a nossa análise dos dizeres do corpus de pesquisa, formado por três segmentos. O segmento oficial compreende os principais documentos referentes ao PNDL 2011. O segmento midiático foi composto por textos disponibilizados na internet, publicados por agências de notícias governamentais e não governamentais e por sites de escolas e associações. O segmento profissional contou com as respostas de professores de inglês do 6º ao 9º ano da rede pública de ensino. Essas respostas foram coletadas em dois momentos através de questionários de pesquisa. No primeiro momento, as coleções que compuseram o PNLD 2011 ainda não eram conhecidas pelos professores respondentes. No segundo momento, os professores que responderam ao segundo questionário já utilizavam as coleções de inglês do PNLD 2011. A análise do discurso sobre o livro didático de inglês nos possibilitou a percepção de efeitos que apontam ao funcionamento do LDI como verdade por ser representado como tal pelo discurso que fala sobre ele. Através da análise, observamos também efeitos característicos do funcionamento das sociedades de controle, como prevista por Michel Foucault ([1979] 2004) e discutida por Gilles Deleuze ([1990] 1992). No eixo do interdiscurso, percebemos nos enunciados os princípios moduladores, garantindo o adiamento do fim, demandando atualizações contínuas, motivando o indivíduo e assegurando o controle. No eixo do intradiscurso, a materialidade linguística mostrou-se frequentemente marcada pela modalização dos dizeres, suavizando-os e suscitando múltiplas possibilidades. Os efeitos percebidos parecem funcionar como os princípios moduladores, formulados por Deleuze ([1990] 1992), que marcam a relação saber-poder funcionando já nos moldes da sociedade de controle / Our aim to investigate the discourse about the English textbook inevitably touches on the issue of the textbook as a discourse of truth. Driven by the hypothesis that the power of discourse of truth, often attributed to the textbook, is built by the discourse which speaks about the textbook, our research aims to study the functioning mode and the effects of that discourse which we name discourse about the English textbook. Although English textbooks have been adopted in some courses by some public school teachers here and there, this is the first time that the Brazilian federal government has proposed the nation-wide adoption of foreign language textbooks (English and/or Spanish) through the National Textbook Program for the year of 2011 (PNLD 2011) by selecting titles for teachers to choose from and by bearing all the expenses involved in the process. Our research follows the conceptualization of Discourse Analysis as established by Michel Pêcheux. Those concepts guide the analysis of the excerpts in our research corpus, which is composed of three segments. The official discourse segment contains excerpts from the most relevant documents issued by the government on the PNLD 2011. The media discourse segment comprises online news and articles issued by governmental as well as non-governmental news agencies and by schools and associations sites. The professional discourse segment holds the answers provided by public school teachers of English (6th to 9th grades) to two questionnaires on the adoption of the English textbook. Their answers were collected in two distinct moments. The first questionnaire was answered by the teachers before textbook collections were pre-selected to integrate the PNLD 2011. The second questionnaire was answered by teachers who already used the PNLD 2011 textbooks. The analysis of the discourse about the English textbook led us to the perception of effects which confirm the functioning of the English textbook as a discourse of truth since it is represented as such by the discourse about it. Through discourse analysis, we have also observed effects which are typical of the functioning mode of societies of control, as briefly defined by Michel Foucault ([1979] 2004) and further contended by Gilles Deleuze ([1990] 1992). In the interdiscourse axis, modulating principles were observed in enouncements, as they ensure limitless postponements, demand continuous updating, motivate the individual and ensure control. In the intradiscourse axis, the linguistic materiality often presented excerpts marked by modalization, which softens the remarks and gives rise to multiple possibilities. The effects observed seem to work as modulating principles, as formulated by Deleuze ([1990] 1992), which confirms that the relationship between power and knowledge is already functioning in the modes of societies of control

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-05-02T16:29:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata_Waleska_Pimenta_.pdf: 1255084 bytes, checksum: ad84548b2cf6f71adab6d7c5b87fe3fa (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T16:29:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata_Waleska_Pimenta_.pdf: 1255084 bytes, checksum: ad84548b2cf6f71adab6d7c5b87fe3fa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-03 / Nenhuma / O presente trabalho de pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as teses de doutorado produzidas em programas de pós-graduação em educação, no período de 2000-2010, a respeito da educação e sua relação com as questões étnico-raciais, com o intuito de perceber os possíveis sentidos oriundos dos enunciados destas teses. Parte-se do pressuposto que a partir da promulgação da lei 10.639/03, que tornou obrigatório o ensino de História e Cultura Africana e Afro-Brasileira nas escolas de educação básica, os interesses pela temática nos programas de pós-graduação apresentaram um considerável aumento, contudo nos interessa perceber a forma como esses trabalhos estão se construindo, uma vez que a construção do conhecimento é oriunda de um campo de tensionamentos que é a academia. Assim, a relação entre saber e poder se faz presente e estabelece barreiras epistemológicas que se constituíram ao longo da história brasileira. A pesquisa se fundamenta nos pressupostos teóricos do Círculo de Bakhtin, sobretudo na concepção de dialogismo, pois os discursos destas teses só podem ser compreendidos quando apreendidos a partir da interação sujeito-autor, enunciado e condições sócio históricas. Os resultados da presente ação investigativa demonstram como as rupturas epistemológicas são difíceis de promover mudanças nas crenças, valores e, automaticamente, nas práticas pedagógicas. As teses analisadas remetem à essa dificuldade e se tornam porta-vozes de uma luta iniciada pelos movimentos sociais ao longo da história brasileira e que se mantém viva na atualidade. Os discursos destas teses se mostraram, para além de textos científicos, verdadeiros manifestos em prol de uma sociedade em que a igualdade racial seja uma premissa verdadeira. / This research study aims to analyze the doctoral theses produced on graduate programs in education, in the period of 2000-2010, about education and its relation to ethnic and racial issues, in order to realize potential directions coming from the statements of these theses. A part on the assumption that since the enactment of Law 10.639 / 03, which made compulsory the teaching of African History and Culture and African-Brazilian in basic education schools, the interest in the topic in graduate programs showed a considerable increase, however it concerns us understand how these works are being built since the construction of knowledge comes from a tensioning field that is the gym. Thus, the relationship between knowledge and power is present and establishes epistemological barriers that formed along the Brazilian history. The research is based on theoretical assumptions of the Bakhtin Circle, especially in the design of dialogism, for the discourses of these theses can only be understood when seized from the subject-author interaction, statement and socio historical conditions. The results of this investigative action demonstrate how the epistemological ruptures are difficult to make changes in beliefs, values and automatically, in pedagogical practices. The analyzed theses refer to this difficulty and become spokesmen of a fight initiated by social movements throughout Brazilian history and remains alive today. The discourses of these thesis have proved, in addition to scientific texts, true manifestos in favor of a society in which racial equality is a true premise.

This case study examined how a group of young girls at a secondary school in northern England made sense of their participation in a gender specific vocational education initiative designed to encourage female interest in skilled trade education and professions. The investigation consists of a qualitative case study that included ‘practical’ and historical components. On the practical side, the study looked at a gender specific initiative (girls only) aimed at Year 9 students (12-14 years old) at Garden Road Community and Technology School. The one-day sessions were held at local area colleges or vocational education and training (VET) training facilities and covered skilled trade fields that are traditionally male-dominated (e.g. automotive, construction and engineering). My methodology for the study consisted of two data sources, interviews and a review of public VET policy-related documents. The data was gathered using two methods, with individual and group interviews as the primary one, and public VET policy-related document analysis as the secondary one. In total, 13 current, 2 former and an additional 2 formerly registered (now graduates who decided to pursue non-traditional vocational education and professions) students at the school were interviewed. Beside former and current students, interviews were conducted with 2 instructors and 1 senior administrator at the school. The selection of government policy-related documents covered 2002 to 2011. The study is framed by a feminist informed genealogy that invokes Foucault’s (1990) notion of ‘biopower’ and Pillow’s (2003) notion of the ‘gendered body.’ Meanwhile, Ted Aoki’s (2003) concepts of curriculum-as-plan and curricula-as-lived are used to analyze and discuss the review of UK government policy-related documents and participant narratives. The theme-based presentation of student narratives centred on the girls’ understanding and experience of: the session process and content; gender; non-traditional VET as educational and occupational options; and the impact of the sessions on their educational and professional choices. The student narratives suggest several things that relate to their understanding of gender and non-traditional VET. First, the sessions proved to be both interesting and informative and students expressed an interest in taking part in more (and) varied gender-specific sessions. Second, traditional constructions of gender and gendered behavior are commonly used in job-related discourse as evidenced by the use of the terms ‘boys jobs’ and ‘girls jobs’ among the students. In addition, students had limited opportunities for exposure to non-traditional VET education and professions; and what knowledge they do have is generally dependent upon family knowledge and experience in the area. From a document review standpoint, the findings show that government commitment in terms of interest and financial backing for VET has been inconsistent. Resultantly, schools are left to identify and maintain a range of community-based partnerships that may not always see gender segregation in VET as a major concern. The significance of this study rests in the presentation of the girls’ ‘lived curriculum’ and ‘gendered’ experiences as points that can offer insight into what transpires within vocational education initiatives and settings. Furthermore, from a feminist perspective the research also highlights the continued need to work with schools on how gender is presented, discussed and understood among students. Failure to consider the gendered nature of discourse about education and professional options that takes place within school and class settings limits students’ perspectives about what is available and possible.

This case study examined how a group of young girls at a secondary school in northern England made sense of their participation in a gender specific vocational education initiative designed to encourage female interest in skilled trade education and professions. The investigation consists of a qualitative case study that included ‘practical’ and historical components. On the practical side, the study looked at a gender specific initiative (girls only) aimed at Year 9 students (12-14 years old) at Garden Road Community and Technology School. The one-day sessions were held at local area colleges or vocational education and training (VET) training facilities and covered skilled trade fields that are traditionally male-dominated (e.g. automotive, construction and engineering). My methodology for the study consisted of two data sources, interviews and a review of public VET policy-related documents. The data was gathered using two methods, with individual and group interviews as the primary one, and public VET policy-related document analysis as the secondary one. In total, 13 current, 2 former and an additional 2 formerly registered (now graduates who decided to pursue non-traditional vocational education and professions) students at the school were interviewed. Beside former and current students, interviews were conducted with 2 instructors and 1 senior administrator at the school. The selection of government policy-related documents covered 2002 to 2011. The study is framed by a feminist informed genealogy that invokes Foucault’s (1990) notion of ‘biopower’ and Pillow’s (2003) notion of the ‘gendered body.’ Meanwhile, Ted Aoki’s (2003) concepts of curriculum-as-plan and curricula-as-lived are used to analyze and discuss the review of UK government policy-related documents and participant narratives. The theme-based presentation of student narratives centred on the girls’ understanding and experience of: the session process and content; gender; non-traditional VET as educational and occupational options; and the impact of the sessions on their educational and professional choices. The student narratives suggest several things that relate to their understanding of gender and non-traditional VET. First, the sessions proved to be both interesting and informative and students expressed an interest in taking part in more (and) varied gender-specific sessions. Second, traditional constructions of gender and gendered behavior are commonly used in job-related discourse as evidenced by the use of the terms ‘boys jobs’ and ‘girls jobs’ among the students. In addition, students had limited opportunities for exposure to non-traditional VET education and professions; and what knowledge they do have is generally dependent upon family knowledge and experience in the area. From a document review standpoint, the findings show that government commitment in terms of interest and financial backing for VET has been inconsistent. Resultantly, schools are left to identify and maintain a range of community-based partnerships that may not always see gender segregation in VET as a major concern. The significance of this study rests in the presentation of the girls’ ‘lived curriculum’ and ‘gendered’ experiences as points that can offer insight into what transpires within vocational education initiatives and settings. Furthermore, from a feminist perspective the research also highlights the continued need to work with schools on how gender is presented, discussed and understood among students. Failure to consider the gendered nature of discourse about education and professional options that takes place within school and class settings limits students’ perspectives about what is available and possible.