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Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and
at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in
ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples
of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a
rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range
of domains.
Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and
at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in
ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples
of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a
rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range
of domains.
The last thirty years have seen the world transformed according to
market models of competition and consumption. These changes have
had profound consequences across the professions in areas as
diverse as education, healthcare and social services. The Discourse
of Commercialization examines what it means for professionals
oriented towards service provision to work within this environment.
Drawing on a multi-perspectived study of English Language Teaching
colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated
and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which
market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives.
For anyone who wants to understand and address issues raised by the
commercialization of professional practice with a particular focus
on education, The Discourse of Commercialization provides an
analysis that can inform organizational practice and change.
An examination of how the commercialization of professional
practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on
a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices
are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization'
through which market priorities become normative in teachers'
professional lives.
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