Abstract

LOPEZ-BONILLA, Guadalupe. Practices of the Discipline, Practices of the School: What Are Academic Disciplines and How Are They Related to Formal Education in Science and the Humanities?. RMIE [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.57, pp.383-412. ISSN 1405-6666.

In this article, I analyze the relation between academic disciplines and a high school education. My conceptual starting points are the premises of disciplinary literacy as an emerging pedagogical proposal in some educational systems, and the socio-critical theory of Basil Bernstein and Karl Maton, to characterize the discourses of academic disciplines and their relation with education. Such theories permit identifying and describing central aspects of that relation, and contribute to current debate on how to achieve better links between the two social fields. To illustrate the theory of Berns-tein and Maton, I center my attention on the curricular organization of two subjects that form part of the compulsory high school curriculum for science (chemistry) and the humanities (language and literature). I conclude with the implications that this analysis offers for teaching the native language in high school.

Keywords : disciplinary literacy; language teaching; science teaching; high school education; Mexico.

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