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ERIC Number: EJ581068
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1911
Discourses of Learning Difficulty and the Conditions of School Development.
Skidmore, David
Educational Review, v51 n1 p17-28 Feb 1999
Although the "consensus thesis" assumes that learning difficulties arise from school structural deficiencies, a study of two English secondary schools concludes that the thesis fails to account for complexities of school development. Instead, open-ended dialog between contrasting discourses would foster dynamic school cultures. (SK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, School Culture, School Restructuring, Secondary Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Consensus; England