Books and journal articles: the textual practices of academic knowledge
Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
The role of knowledge representation in knowledge design
The process of publication is an integral aspect of knowledge making. Far from being a neutral conduit for knowledge, the publication system defines the social processes through which knowledge is made, and gives tangible form to knowledge that would otherwise be relegated to the ephemeral. The message, of course, is by no means reducible to its medium. We take it for granted that there are knowledge referents external to knowledge representations, and that the representations are not ends in themselves. However, the representational media and the social norms of representation are ...
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