Making the case for policy - persuasiveness in higher education, science and technology policy discourse.

Autor/in	Nokkala, Terhi
Titel	Making the case for policy - persuasiveness in higher education, science and technology policy discourse.
Quelle	In: European Journal of Higher Education, 6 (2016) 2, S. 144-158Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2156-8235; 2156-8243
DOI	10.1080/21568235.2015.1086664
Schlagwörter	Staat; Hochschule; Hochschulsystem; Ausland; Finnland; Großbritannien; Portugal; USA
Abstract	Policy texts present problems, propose solutions to those problems and persuade multiple audiences of the legitimacy of the proposed problems and solutions. The rhetorical analysis of two decades of higher education and science and technology discourse in Finland, Germany, UK, Portugal and USA highlights the discursive elements that contribute to persuasiveness of policy, construe it as rational and logical, and create a sense of urgency in bringing it about. I argue that the analytical and hortatory registers of policy discourse foreground competitive and hierarchical relations of countries and their higher education systems. By construing certain state of affairs and courses of action as self-evidently desirable and true, they contribute to the emergence and reproduction of the neoliberal political rationality proposed by the Foucauldian governmentality theory. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Bonn
Update	2016/4