The Representation of the National Quality Framework in the Australian Print Media: Silences and Slants in the Mediatisation of Early Childhood Education Policy

Autor/inn/en	Fenech, Marianne; Wilkins, David P.
Titel	The Representation of the National Quality Framework in the Australian Print Media: Silences and Slants in the Mediatisation of Early Childhood Education Policy
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 34 (2019) 6, S.748-770 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fenech, Marianne) ORCID (Wilkins, David P.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2018.1502815
Schlagwörter	News Reporting; Educational Policy; Early Childhood Education; Bias; Child Care; Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Newspapers; Printed Materials; Mass Media Effects; Costs; Federal Regulation; Agenda Setting; Parent Attitudes; Young Children; Commercialization; Standards; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? News report; Reportage; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Newspaper; Zeitung; Cost; Kosten; Bundeskompetenz; Elternverhalten; Frühe Kindheit; Standard; Australien
Abstract	While research investigating the mediatisation of education policy has primarily been undertaken in school contexts, this paper reports on a study conducted in the context of early childhood education. The paper examines how a major policy in early childhood education in Australia -- the National Quality Framework -- has been mediatised in selected newspapers. Drawing on Foucauldian, critical discourse analysis and mediatisation theorising, we utilised the corpus linguistic tools of WordSmith Tools 6.0 to inform content analyses of 121 articles from two major media corporations, News Corp and Fairfax. Our findings highlight the utility of treating our data as two distinct corpora, with each corporation found to have utilised discursive technologies to proffer competing positionings of the Framework. The contested nature of the Framework -- generally purported in Fairfax to be a tool that supports quality early education, as opposed to News Corp's framing of the policy as one that inhibits affordable childcare -- poses implications for which advocacy groups are regarded by the media as having authority and thus likely to influence policy through the reporting of their voices. Implications for newspaper media as a discursive influence on parents' childcare decision-making are also considered. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01