The Media Got It Wrong! A Critical Discourse Analysis of Changes to the Educational Policy Making Arena

Autor/in	Piazza, Peter
Titel	The Media Got It Wrong! A Critical Discourse Analysis of Changes to the Educational Policy Making Arena
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22 (2014) 36, (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068 2341
Schlagwörter	Discourse Analysis; Educational Policy; Criticism; Political Influences; Politics of Education; Mass Media Effects; Mass Media Role; Case Studies; Advocacy; Interviews; Policy Formation; Media Research; Neoliberalism; Unions; State Legislation; Teacher Effectiveness; Educational Administration; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Kritik; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Educational policy; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Sozialanwaltschaft; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politische Betätigung; Medienforschung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Landesrecht; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	The context for education policy making has changed dramatically in recent years. Policymaking at the state-level has become characterized by near-unprecedented enactment of neo-liberal education policies, increased influence of so-called Education Reform Advocacy Organizations (ERAOs) and increased challenges to unions' political influence. In this article, I explore the news media's characterization of power and political influence in this new policy making arena. I offer case study analysis of a Massachusetts law, passed in the summer of 2012 with support from a nonprofit advocacy group called Stand for Children, that limits seniority-based tenure for public school teachers. I use Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how themes, or discourses, common to this new context of policy making played out in the media coverage of the law, and I identify and characterize differences between media coverage of the law and the historical account as told in stakeholder interviews with major players involved in policy debate and development. Ultimately, I suggest that differences between media and interview data can tell us a lot about power and political influence in a time of dramatic policy change. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01