A Tale of a Discursive Shift: Analysing EU Policy Discourses in Irish Adult Education Policy -- From the "White Paper" to the "Further Education and Training Strategy"

Autor/in	Shannon, Denise
Titel	A Tale of a Discursive Shift: Analysing EU Policy Discourses in Irish Adult Education Policy -- From the "White Paper" to the "Further Education and Training Strategy"
Quelle	In: Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, (2019), S.98-117 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8040
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Educational Policy; Discourse Analysis; Language Usage; Equal Education; Lifelong Learning; Skills; Inclusion; Ireland; European Union + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Diskursanalyse; Sprachgebrauch; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Skill; Fertigkeit; Inklusion; Irland
Abstract	This article discusses some of the main findings of a Critical Discourse Analysis of two landmark documents in Irish adult education: Learning for Life: The White Paper on Adult Education (DES, 2000) and the Further Education and Training Strategy (SOLAS, 2014) (from here on referred to respectively as the White Paper and the FET Strategy). The diachronic approach taken by this inquiry permits an exploration of the ways in which language in policy documents has changed over time, particularly in terms of how policy addresses educational inequality. It is in this way that the notion of a discursive shift could be explored, setting this change in language in starker relief. Policy as discourse shapes the formation of this inquiry so the article briefly explicates the approach taken to a Critical Discourse Analysis. Considerations of methodological nationalism widened the focus to consider the influence of European Union (EU) policy discourses specifically in Irish policy formation and these discourses in the statecraft of the EU and nation states. It is from this perspective that the Irish story is also a European one, so the article analyses how the White Paper and the FET Strategy were framed by the EU policy discourses of 'lifelong learning' and 'skills' respectively. As part of this analysis, this article considers the significance of the redefinition of the notion of 'inclusion' to 'active inclusion' and the sharpening of 'evidence based' discourse in policy resourcing of adult education provision. Finally, the article briefly elaborates on the authors' experience of this research and the value of Critical Discourse Analysis as a normative force and a tool for advocacy. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation. 2nd Floor, 83-87 Main Street, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, Ireland. Tel: +353-1-406-8220; Tel: +353-1-406-8221; Fax: +353-1-406-8227; e-mail: mail@aontas.com; Web site: http://www.aontas.com
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Update	2020/1/01