Mushfake, resistance, and meta-knowledge are ways that people fake being part of a Discourse without being a part of it. These are important for students to learn how to use and to eventually become a part of the Discourse that they are trying to be a part of.
Gee states 2 theorems in his writings. The first one is that you can’t be somewhat in a Discourse. You may see it, and you may interact with it, but you can’t be partially in it. It’s easy to create Discourse with a group, and be a part of it, but it’s hard to enter … [More…]
“Each is different – you don’t talk to different groups the same way” This is a note commenting on something that Gee said, expanding to his words. Basically, Gee is saying that in each situation, we adapt different ways of communicating with each other for each different situation. “Comes with experience/practice” This annotation was an … [More…]
This combination of forms of interactions is important to Gee because these dictate the ways that social interactions function at both a basic and complex level. If everyone only operated in one Discourse, then people would interact the same way with their parents, siblings, teachers, significant others, friends, acquaintances, and strangers. It is because we … [More…]
