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Micropolitical Negotiations within Schoo... - Document (1 M) |
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| Author |
Skelton, Jane |
| Title |
Micropolitical Negotiations within School Reform |
| Date created |
2010 |
| Abstract |
This case study examines the micropolitical strategies that a coach and seven teachers utilized to negotiate ideological and epistemological beliefs during required common planning time meetings for the period of one semester in an urban middle school. Theories of micropolitics and critical discourse analysis guided the development of the research questions that emphasized the political nature of the transactions and interactions between individuals within a school and how these negotiations were affected by the cultural and political climate of the district and the ideologies of individuals within that school about how students learn. The findings revealed how coaching as a reform strategy is highly influenced by the context of the school. The observations of mandated common planning time meetings, interviews with the coach and teachers, and other artifacts suggest that the power relationships between the members of the school community and political tensions of time, autonomy, ideological conflict, and trust influenced the discourse and interaction of the coach and teachers and influenced the implementation of the school's reform initiative. |
| Use Restrictions |
I hereby allow Boston College to include and preserve my dissertation/thesis in electronic form in the Boston College Institutional Repository, which shall include the right to publicly post my dissertation/thesis on the World Wide Web. I will retain copyright ownership, but I grant to Boston College the non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, and publicly display my dissertation/thesis in any form as may be necessary or convenient in the future as file formats, storage media, and distribution mechanisms evolve. |
| Subject |
coaching |
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critical discourse analysis |
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micropolitics |
| Genre Heading |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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text |
| Publisher |
Boston College |
| Link to Item |
2345/1534 |
| Thesis Advisor |
McQuillan, Patrick |
| Degree Name |
PhD |
| Degree Grantor |
Boston College. Lynch School of Education. |
| Sys. No. |
000004203 |
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