Baker-Keogh1995

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Baker-Keogh1995
BibType ARTICLE
Key Baker-Keogh1995
Author(s) Carolyn Baker, Jayne Keogh
Title Accounting for achievement in parent-teacher interviews
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Tag(s) EMCA, Education, Teachers, Parents
Publisher
Year 1995
Language
City
Month
Journal Human Studies
Volume 18
Number 2
Pages 263–300
URL Link
DOI 10.1007/BF01323213
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
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Edition
Series
Howpublished
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Abstract

This paper examines features of the talk in a number of teacher-parent interviews recently audio-recorded in a secondary school in Brisbane, Australia. The central topic of the talk is the academic achievement of the student. In offering accounts of the student's achievement, participants offer ‘moral versions’ of themselves as parents and teachers. These institutional identities are oriented to and elaborated in the course and in the organisation of this talk. The student about whom the talk is done is present but largely silent, an ‘overhearing audience’ to this talk. The analysis shows how parents and teachers talk two institutions, and the relation between them, into being.

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