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This paper examines features of the talk in a number of teacher-parent interviews recently audio-recorded in a secondary school in Brisbane, Australia. The central topic of the talk is the academic achievement of the student. In offering accounts of the student's achievement, participants offer ‘moral versions’ of themselves as parents and teachers. These institutional identities are oriented to and elaborated in the course and in the organisation of this talk. The student about whom the talk is done is present but largely silent, an ‘overhearing audience’ to this talk. The analysis shows how parents and teachers talk two institutions, and the relation between them, into being.
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We wish to thank the participants in the interviews for their agreement to have the interviews audio-recorded.
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Baker, C., Keogh, J. Accounting for achievement in parent-teacher interviews. Hum Stud 18, 263–300 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323213
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