Place Stories: Time, Space and Literacy in Two Classrooms (Discourse and Social Processes)

School change is often treated a-historically: curricula get audited, new curricula get mapped, and new pedagogies are to be taken up by teachers. These practices, though necessary, sometimes fail because history (past practice) is not seen as having staying power. Place stories examines social practices of two classrooms to learn how the two places have and exert that power. Examining school literacy practices within the framework of place reveals how the social process of a place both enable and prohibit school change. School change agents, charged with bringing new imaginations to a place, will find this work a useful reference.