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ERIC Number: EJ634644
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
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Assessment Discourse and Constructions of Social Reality in Infant Classrooms.
Tunstall, Pat
Journal of Education Policy, v16 n3 p215-31 May-Jun 2001
Analyzes assessment policy and practice from a critical/poststructuralist perspective, focusing on two main aspects of everyday classroom discourse--speech acts and metaphor. The analysis reveals the existence of diverse discourses (antagonistic, behaviorist, and psychometric) densely congregated in (British) infant classrooms and complex in their interrelationships. (Contains 44 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Metaphors, Primary Education, Social Influences, Speech Acts, Student Evaluation, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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