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Power and Teacher-Administrator Discourse

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This review concerns the discourse between teachers and administrators. ‘Teacher’ and ‘administrator’ are used here in an all-inclusive sense -teachers being taken to include practicing teachers and student teachers; and administrators as including supervisors and administrators, unless specifically noted otherwise.

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Waite, D. (1997). Power and Teacher-Administrator Discourse. In: Wodak, R., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4538-1_5

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