Mehan1983

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Mehan1983
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mehan1983
Author(s) Hugh Mehan
Title The role of language and the language of role in institutional decision making
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Education, Decision
Publisher
Year 1983
Language
City
Month
Journal Language in Society
Volume 12
Number 2
Pages 187–211
URL Link
DOI 10.1017/S0047404500009805
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Institution
School
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Series
Howpublished
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Abstract

The relationship between linguistic processes, cognitive activities, and social structures is explored by examining the decision making of committees of educators as they decide to place students into special education programs or retain them in regular classrooms. Often, different committee members enter committee meetings with different views of the student's case and its disposition, e.g., classroom teachers and parents provide accounts of the student's performance that compete with the view of the psychologist or district representative. Yet by the meeting's end, the version of the student's case provided by the psychologist or the district representative prevails.

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