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Autor/in | Ayers, David F. |
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Titel | Credentialing Structures, Pedagogies, Practices, and Curriculum Goals: Trajectories of Change in Community College Mission Statements |
Quelle | In: Community College Review, 43 (2015) 2, S.191-214 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0091-5521 |
DOI | 10.1177/0091552115569847 |
Schlagwörter | Community Colleges; Institutional Mission; Position Papers; Comparative Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Computer Software; Discourse Analysis; Organizational Communication; Information Retrieval; Credentials; College Instruction; Educational Practices; College Curriculum; Educational Objectives; Educational Change |
Abstract | Objective: To examine the discursive strategies deployed by community colleges to sustain legitimacy in an evolving and contradictory institutional environment. Method: Using corpus linguistics software, I compared 1,009 mission statements from 2012-2013 with a reference corpus of 427 mission statements from 2004. Results: Keywords analysis, collocation analysis, and concordance analysis suggest that mission statements have changed along four discourse trajectories: credentialing structures, pedagogies, practices, and curriculum goals. Contributions: These findings situate the community college as a point of entry into understanding the relations among institutional legitimacy and a changing cultural, political, and economic milieu. (As Provided). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2020/1/01 |