1 Whose Reform ? – Teachers ’ Voices from

This paper explores school reforms as a moral voice, which speaks in a different language in each context. We used the comprehensive school reform in Finland as an example and asked how teachers talk about it. Five discourses were identified: the silence, the irony, the submission, the active resistance and the opportunities. The sixth discourse, ‘the commitment’, was used when teachers talked about changes in their classrooms with the language of relationships. We argue that school reforms and changes in the classrooms are not identical, because they base on different morality. Hearing teachers’ voices in school reforms still in our present time is a big challenge both to the administration and scholars.