本書運用批判話語分析和敘述研究方法，對課程話語現代性和教師發展問題展開實證研究。作者融閤海德格爾、哈貝馬斯、巴赫金、莊子等人的語言觀，提齣教育改革就是追尋教師生存方式和教育活動的和諧，讓課程話語擺脫理性的束縛，讓教師迴歸探索者的身份。

"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

吳宗傑，浙江寜海人，浙江大學跨文化研究所所長、教授、博士生導師，獲英國Lancaster 大學博士。目前還兼任浙江大學當代中國話語研究中心副主任，浙江大學非物質遺産研究中心和東西方文化與管理研究中心研究員。

個人主頁：http://www.sisins.zju.edu.cn/culture/staff/wuz/wuzongjie.htm