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Peter, Tobias; Bröckling, Ulrich – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
Looking to conflicting constitutions of education systems through the terms equality and excellence, this paper examines the discursive formation of two political rationalities in the contemporary German education system. While early childhood and primary education discourses are dominated by a terminology of equality, tertiary education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Educational Practices
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Bahr, Peter Riley; Gross, Jillian Leigh; Slay, Kelly E.; Christensen, Rebecca D. – Educational Policy, 2015
Across the United States, community colleges are facing severe funding reductions and surging enrollment, resulting in a condition of impaction in which demand for coursework exceeds financial or physical capacity. In turn, impaction is necessitating changes in enrollment management policies, including rapid evolution in registration priority…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Registration, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Cherubini, Lorenzo – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The learning ministries in Ontario have made a concerted effort to underscore Aboriginal learners' needs and preferences in publicly-funded and assisted schools and training services throughout the province. Through a trilogy of policy documents, the Ontario Ministry of Education (OME) and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU)…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Canada Natives
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Hodkinson, Alan – Disability & Society, 2012
This paper critically analyses discourses of educational inclusion in England through the lens of Derridean deconstruction. Linking Derrida's thesis on writing and speech to presence and absence, the paper contends that inclusion acts as a "suppleance" to previous policies of integration. The paper suggests that, for many teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Discourse Analysis, Criticism
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Beech, Jason; Barrenechea, Ignacio – Critical Studies in Education, 2011
In this article we explore ways in which pro-market discourses have been interpreted in policy initiatives in Argentina since the 1970s. Our argument is that even though pro-market discourses have guided reforms in many aspects of public policies in Argentina, the arena of education has overall been resistant to taking them up. The first part of…
Descriptors: Ideology, Governance, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Santiago, Rui; Carvalho, Teresa – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2012
In Portugal, as elsewhere, the rhetoric of managerialism in higher education is becoming firmly entrenched in the governmental policymakers' discourse and has been widely disseminated across the institutional landscape. Managerialism is an important ideological support of New Public Management policies and can be classified as a narrative of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Educational Policy
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Arnott, Margaret; Ozga, Jenny – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2010
The paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine and discuss some of the key developments in the governing of education in Scotland since the election of the Scottish National Party (SNP) government in May 2007. It analyses these developments, drawing on a study of key policy texts and suggests that discourse analysis has much to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Morris, Paul – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
Education reform is increasingly portrayed as a quest to achieve a "world class" education system through a process of identifying and adopting the practices of those systems whose pupils perform best in league tables of achievement. This is the rationale for the range of new policies proposed by the coalition government in the schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Evidence, Educational Change
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Rear, David – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
This paper will examine how Japanese education policy was articulated discursively from 1996 to 2010 in the semi-annual speeches of prime ministers to the Diet. It will identify three distinct discourses within these policy statements: a progressive discourse emphasizing the rights of individuals; a neo-liberal discourse of social independence and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Ideology, Speeches, Position Papers
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Luna, Cathy – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2009
In this paper, I examine and critique the construction of "learning disabilities" at an Ivy League university in the USA. Drawn from a study of the experiences of learning disabled labelled Ivy undergraduates, this paper focuses on the language practices, assumptions, and power relationships that characterize the University discourse within and…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Discourse Analysis, Student Experience, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Weston, Mark E.; Bain, Alan – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2010
This analysis responds to a generation of criticism leveled at 1:1 laptop computer initiatives. The article presents a review of the key themes of that criticism and offers suggestions for reframing the conversation about 1:1 computing among advocates and critics. Efforts at changing, innovating, and reforming education provide the context for…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Criticism, Educational Change, Discourse Analysis
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Iverson, Susan V. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2008
Using policy discourse analysis, the author analyzed 21 diversity action plans issued at 20 U.S. land-grant universities over a five-year period to identify images of diversity and the problems and solutions represented in diversity action plans. Discourses of marketplace, excellence, managerialism, and democracy emerged and served to construct…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Discourse Analysis, Affirmative Action, Desegregation Plans
Tobias, Robert – Online Submission, 2006
This article tells the story of policies relevant to education, ageism and older adults between 1999 and 2005. It follows an article published in a previous "New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning" that described and critiqued policy developments between the 1980s and 2001. The story is located in the context of ongoing historical…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Ideology