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Language, Race, and Power in Schools: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Routledge Research in Education
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Orelus, Pierre W., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2017
In this edited collection, authors from various academic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and personal backgrounds use critical discourse analysis as a conceptual framework and method to examine social inequities, identity issues, and linguistic discrimination faced by historically oppressed groups in schools and society. "Language, Race, and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Discourse Analysis, Social Differences
FORUM: Instructional Communication and Millennial Students: The Power of Language: A Constitutive Response to Millennial Student Research
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Rudick, Kyle C.; Ellison, Scott – Communication Education, 2016
In response to the articles in this forum, the authors write that they were struck by the way most of the authors assumed that generations are stable entities characterized by readily identifiable factors, such as age, attitudes or circumstances. Following a constitutive philosophy of communication and instruction (Fassett & Warren, 2007;…
Descriptors: Language Role, Student Research, Self Concept, Age Differences
The Transformation of Children's Services: Examining and Debating the Complexities of Inter/Professional Working
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Forbes, Joan, Ed.; Watson, Cate, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for "joined-up" services? Children's services in many countries around the world are being transformed as part of the call for "joined-up working for joined-up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Cooperation, Social Capital
Hate Speech.
Whillock, Rita Kirk, Ed.; Slayden, David, Ed. – 1995
Most of the research on hate has focused on specific acts of hatred, but little attention has been given to the rhetorical expression and strategies of hate. The insights of scholars from a variety of disciplines have been gathered in this collection to explore hate as a communication phenomenon. Essays include: (1) "Elite Discourse and the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Hate Crime, Homosexuality
Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia.
Jeffery, Roger, Ed.; Basu, Alaka M., Ed. – 1996
Most of the papers in this volume were presented at a workshop in New Delhi (India) in April 1993, although some revisions and additions are included. Presenting primary evidence from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh and existing survey and census data, the papers in this collection explore interrelated issues of women's autonomy, female…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Causal Models, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Special Feature: Internal Evaluation.
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Mathison, Sandra, Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Five papers and an introduction discuss internal evaluation (IE), concentrating on the various sources of authority for IE and ways of enhancing IE authority. The roles of internal evaluators, conflicts in the evaluation process, and evaluation in a state education agency are reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Agency and Structure: Dialectics in the Administration of Education. ESA844, Administrative Context of Schooling.
Watkins, Peter – 1985
This volume is part of a series of monographs from Australia devoted to outlining an alternative approach, based on neo-Marxist concepts, to educational administration. The introductory essay in this volume attempts to develop and clarify the basis for an alternative, dialectical approach to educational administration, which emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Bureaucracy, Educational Administration