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Hugh Mehan
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 87
Citations - 5008
Hugh Mehan is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Politics. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 86 publications receiving 4867 citations.
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‘What time is it, Denise?”: Asking known information questions in classroom discourse
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of known information questions in classroom discourse, such as "What time is it, Denise?" in the context of communicating with young children.
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Extending Educational Reform: From One School to Many
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the life cycle of external reform models: implementation, sustainability, and expiriation, and measuring reform success, and conclude that "Is it Working?" Measuring reform success.
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Understanding Inequality in Schools: The Contribution of Interpretive Studies.
TL;DR: The authors argued that the distinction between macro and micro in the field of education perpetuates a false dichotomy, reifies social structure, and relegates social interaction to a residual status, and argued that macro includes structural forces conceptualized at the societal level, including economic constraints and capitalist demands, while micro includes individual or group actions and responses to constraints imposed on social actors.
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Structuring School Structure
TL;DR: Mehan as mentioned in this paper advocates the use of constitutive ethnography to examine the processes by which school participants create school structures and give equal attention to the processes as well as the outcomes of structuring activities.