Talkin' 'bout a Revolution: The Social, Political, and Fantasmatic Logics of Education Policy

Autor/in	Clarke, Matthew
Titel	Talkin' 'bout a Revolution: The Social, Political, and Fantasmatic Logics of Education Policy
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 27 (2012) 2, S.173-191 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2011.623244
Schlagwörter	Criticism; Educational Quality; Policy Analysis; Foreign Countries; Models; Discourse Analysis; Educational Policy; Politics; Neoliberalism; Global Approach; Accountability; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Politikfeldanalyse; Ausland; Analogiemodell; Diskursanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politik; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Globales Denken; Verantwortung; Australien
Abstract	This paper provides a critical analysis of the Australian government's education revolution policy as promulgated in the media release document, "Quality Education: The Case for an Education Revolution in our Schools". It seeks to problematize the government's claim to marry quality and equity, via an analysis of the discursive strategies of the Australian government's revolution talk. My analysis draws on the work of political theorists Jason Glynos and David Howarth and their synthesis of key ideas from Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory into a framework of explanatory "logics." This framework provides conceptual tools for conducting critical policy analysis, including: characterizing a discursive regime on a synchronic plane; accounting for its constitution, reproduction, and/or subversion on a diachronic plane; and explaining the ways in which it grips or seduces subjects at a nonrational level. Overall, the analysis of the education revolution in this paper demonstrates the value of this framework of explanatory logics for education policy analysis, in the process shedding some new light on the Australian government's education revolution policy agenda. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table and 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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