1. Emerging discourses within the English 'choice advice' policy network.
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Exley, Sonia
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EDUCATION policy , *CONTENT analysis , *EDUCATIONAL quality , *SOCIAL networks - Abstract
This paper examines regulating discourses 'spoken' within the complex multi-sector network of educational policy and provision that has grown from a recent introduction of choice advisers in England. Choice advice documentation from across the network is examined and four discursive themes are identified: equity; parental responsibility; independence/impartiality; and realism. The paper suggests that choice advice - as an English policy case illustrating broader social and political trends - superficially promotes empowerment for disadvantaged parents with a depoliticised, managerial approach while disempowering them by diverting attention away from wider stratification and shifting responsibility for educational quality away from the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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