Prescriptionism as a Motivating Mehcanism: An Ethnographic Study in the Public Schools | CU Experts

Overview

One advantage of ethnographic research is the consideration of the underlying mechanisms that structure the behaviors of individuals within certain cultural groups or situations. By approaching public school speech-language pathologists as a cultural group, this article uses ethnographic methods to determine some of the underlying motivations for the role of clinicians in the public schools. A powerful motivating mechanism, prescriptionism, is identified and discussed as it relates to the public school clinician's role.