Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
Education
Abstract
On the basis of an ethnographic study of the Võro-language revitalization in Estonia, this article explores the way teachers function as policy actors in the broader context of the school. As policy actors, the language teachers' appropriation of regional–language policy helps simultaneously to reproduce and challenge existing ideologies in the school environment. I explore the teachers' understandings of their power and freedom to inform their navigation of the circumscribed choices offered in a post-Soviet educational system. [language, anthropology of policy, teachers, Baltic]
Publication Info
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2010, pages 298-314.
Rights
© 2010 by American Anthropological Association