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Emerging Discourses within the English 'Choice Advice' Policy Network
- Source :
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London Review of Education . Nov 2009 7(3):249-260. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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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. (Contains 2 notes and 1 figure.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1474-8460
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- London Review of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ862879
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14748460903290249