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There is always a real possibility that one might drown in attempting to achieve hermetic sealing. Further, it is not always entirely clear where a particular example of language use sits in its deployment within these differing rhetorical devices. However, given that ‘clarity’ is itself a rhetorical achievement and therefore subject to rhetorical analysis, this will not be entirely surprising. For some, embedded in certain scientific and/or realist discourses, these rhetorical practices may be deemed legitimate in the realms of art: for example, fiction and poetry.
These can take many forms but are, most notably, managerial, policy and academic. In the latter, the study of learning has largely, but not solely, taken place in the different branches of psychology – behavioural, cognitive, humanist, socio-cultural – a fraught location, with different branches aspiring to be part of the natural or/ and social sciences, duly naturalized or socially constructed. Pratt and Nesbit (2000) chart some of the movements that have emerged and compete with each other to articulate and explain learning.
However, this was not unambiguous, as there was also the sense that, as well as providing windows of opportunity, colleges could become places that overwhelm. For instance, Simone, a student at Shiptown College, had left school when she was 14 and had had her first child at the age of 17. While bringing up her son, she had a number of ‘little mundane jobs’ like ‘bar work, stacking shelves, you know, cleaning …’. She had ‘put education on the back burner’ until … four years ago I had my second child and I thought to myself, right, what do I want to do?