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Fast Capitalism, School Reform, and Second Language Literacy Practices
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Gebhard, Meg – Modern Language Journal, 2004
This 2-year qualitative study explores the ironies of educational reform in the United States as experienced by three second language learners attending a school attempting to transform itself into a high-performance elementary school in California's Silicon Valley. Drawing on the concept of fast capitalism in a globalized economic work order…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Economic Change, Discourse Analysis, Criticism