Change forces

Its Monday morning, arrived in Nottingham from Cleethorpes thinking hard about discourse - school based, PD based discourse. This is all in these dual critical discourse analysis the Fairclough one: analysing discourse for power relationahsips and then there is the the Foucaludian tradition looking at historical development discourse. Either way the discourse analysis seems to me an appropriate theoretical analysis to view how sense is made of professional developement materials.

Then I get to the office and look up at Ian's shelf, there is a couple of books by Michael Fullan. My first though is why are they there? Ian, why are they there? But Ian is not her but I send him a message on Skype.

But I've been reading Change Forces
Lesson Five: Individualism and collectivism Must Hve Equal Power
Lesson Six Neither Centralisation Nor Decentralisation Works (Both top-dow and bottim up strategies are necessary)

Wow! thinks I this is just the sort of thing that I sent to the NCETM for my MKN report and here is the link between leadership and management literature and mathematics professional development and you know what I think:

Well I think, that in order to really make professional development materials successful the design has to feature some of these aspects. It has to feature matheatical task; pedagogy and practice and a new discourse of top-down bottom-up change and decentralisation and centralisation change.