...Decoteau J. Irby; Shannon P. Clark Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether race-specific language use can advance organizational learning about the racialized nature of school problems. The study addressed two questions: first, is teacher use of racial language associated...

...Norrel A. London The article investigates the language and rhetoric used by school inspectors as leverage in determining the direction for professional practice among teachers in colonial Trinidad and Tobago. The approach is ethnohistorical, and the database comprises major evaluation reports...

...Peter Bodycott David   Corson . Language Policy in Schools: A Resource for Teachers and Administrators . Mahwah, New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates   1999 . 252pp , ISBN: 0 8058 3005 7 , paperback Curriculum Planning Language National cultures Schools...

... reflexive or progressive. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Ethics Language Leadership Schools Although researchers recognize that everyday talk plays a central role in leadership practices (Bredeson, 1985, 1986; Foster, 1982; Giroux, 1984; Gronn, 1983; Martin and Willower, 1981...

...Nadine Binkley Considers the language of professional development and demonstrates how principals with different professional beliefs and understandings interpret the language of education differently. This work is based on a two‐year study of eight principals in a school district undergoing...

... do not discriminate between policy language variations unless they are in an environment which places high value on other variables like resources at the locus of implementation. The language used is nevertheless important. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Administration Education Language...