Selling Visions for Education: What Do Australian Politicians Believe in, Who Are They Trying to Convince and How?

Autor/in	Pitman, Tim
Titel	Selling Visions for Education: What Do Australian Politicians Believe in, Who Are They Trying to Convince and How?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Education, 56 (2012) 3, S.226-240 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-9441
Schlagwörter	Speeches; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Communication Strategies; Persuasive Discourse; Politics; Politics of Education; Ideology; Educational Policy; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Access to Education; Higher Education; Federal Government; State Government; Government Role; Economics; Democracy; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Kommunikationsstrategie; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Politik; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Ideologie; Politics of education; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bundesregierung; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Demokratie; Australien
Abstract	This article analyses the educational visions put forward by Australian federal politicians in their maiden (first) speeches to Parliament. The theoretical approach was a Habermasian-based analysis of the communication strategies adopted by the politicians, meaning that it was not only the content of the speeches but also the delivery that was the focus of the analysis. The findings reveal bipartisan agreement on the importance of education to personal and national economic prosperity, and the importance of quality in education. There were ideologically opposed beliefs in the importance of personal choice and responsibility in education on the one hand, and the need for a democratic and equitable education system on the other. Communicatively, politicians from both sides preferred axiomatic "truths" as a strategic tool to support their various positions, as opposed to strategies of "sincerity" or "rightness". (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10