 Ideology, Discourse, and School Reformreviewed by Mary Louise Gomez - 2004  Title: Ideology, Discourse, and School ReformAuthor(s): Zeus Leonardo Publisher: Praeger Publications, Westport ISBN: 0897899016, Pages: 265, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com This is a study worthy of attention. In it, Zeus Leonardo describes and analyzes two years of talk by an Annenberg Foundation-funded inquiry group of nine teachers, two administrators, two district officers, and three researchers at a large public middle school located in the United States . He provides a carefully documented account of how ideology is inscribed in all that the group’s participants speak and do (in sometimes contradictory ways) as they try to unpack what school reform means and how to engage in it. Relying on audiotaped transcriptions of the group’s interactions, participant interviews, and observations of classroom interactions, Leonardo painstakingly portrays the group’s wide-ranging conversations about students, families, their responsibilities as teachers, their myriad frustrations, and their classroom problems as well as the ideologies which ground individual’s viewpoints, conflicts, and alliances. At its best the book shows readers how a collaborative group simultaneously works to maintain and interrupt the structures that teachers identify as preventing them from acting for social justice and equity. The author... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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