Questions on Reading Gee and Cuddy
1.) Gee defines Discourses (capital D) as “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations”. This means that one cannot just simply learn a certain discipline, they must be involved in it. One must engulf themselves in the culture of what they are trying to become. In Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk, she says, “Where are you being evaluated, either by your friends? For teenagers, it’s at the lunchroom table. For some people it’s speaking at a school board meeting. It might be giving a pitch or…