本书运用批判话语分析和叙述研究方法，对课程话语现代性和教师发展问题展开实证研究。作者融合海德格尔、哈贝马斯、巴赫金、庄子等人的语言观，提出教育改革就是追寻教师生存方式和教育活动的和谐，让课程话语摆脱理性的束缚，让教师回归探索者的身份。

"I think Wu, Zong jie has made a colossal contribution to our thinking. I can't help but compare it with other studies I have read of 'innovations' and this seems by far the most insightful of all of them, as well as being completely different from them. It does a great job of concentrating on the issue of trying to understand the whole thing, and succeeds in putting 'understanding' in its rightful, if problematic, place. Thanks for giving me something really worthwhile to read today."

---Professor Dick Allwright, The Exploratory Practice Center, UK.

"This is a substantial contribution to the field, and an excellent thesis. Two contributions I would pick out in particular are: the convincing case for a mutually enriching relationship between activity theory and critical discourse analysis; a potentially very productive view of the relationship of language and the emergence of understanding and learning."

---Professor Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University