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Through the Eyes of the Institution: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Decision Making in Two Special Education Meetings
Author(s) -
Rogers Rebecca
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2002.33.2.213
Subject(s) - sociology , institution , ethnography , discourse analysis , critical discourse analysis , institutional analysis , order (exchange) , social analysis , reproduction , special education , critical theory , gender studies , social science , pedagogy , anthropology , linguistics , political science , law , politics , ecology , philosophy , finance , ideology , economics , biology
In this article, I present a critical discourse analysis of two Committee on Special Education meetings for one adolescent girl. Drawing on two years of ethnographic data, I look across the two meetings and demonstrate that the second‐year CSE meeting is wrought with three contradictions. This article suggests the need to look to institutional discourses and cases of subjective experiences in order to understand the process of social reproduction in the anthropology of disability.