Can Teachers and Policy Makers Learn to Talk to One Another?

Competing discourses of change are found in education and it is time for a metadiscourse that recognizes these differences. Toll gives some examples of the discourses of change that she finds among teachers as they talk about their literacy instruction, compares them with the discourses of change sh...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2001-12, Vol.55 (4), p.318-325
Main Author: Toll, Cathy A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Changes
Children
Classrooms
Decision making
Developmental Stages
Education
Educational administration
Educational Experience
Educational Practices
Educators
Emotional Response
Grade 6
Language Arts
Learning
Literacy
Literacy Education
Policy making
Political discourse
Principals
Psychological Patterns
Reading Instruction
Reading teachers
School Libraries
Social Networks
Teachers
Teaching (Occupation)
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Competing discourses of change are found in education and it is time for a metadiscourse that recognizes these differences. Toll gives some examples of the discourses of change that she finds among teachers as they talk about their literacy instruction, compares them with the discourses of change she has found among policy makers, drawn from published policy documents.
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714