Policy Rationalities and Policy Technologies: A Programme for Analysing the Raised School-Leaving Age in Western Australia

Autor/in	Hodgson, David
Titel	Policy Rationalities and Policy Technologies: A Programme for Analysing the Raised School-Leaving Age in Western Australia
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 26 (2011) 1, S.115-130 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Compulsory Education; Educational Change; Politics of Education; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Schulpflicht; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	In this paper I outline an approach towards policy analysis that takes governmentality as its point of theoretical orientation and begin to apply this approach to my research into the recently raised compulsory school-leaving age in Western Australia. I aim to demonstrate the methodological potentials of this approach by giving examples of the thinking and practices that shape and condition the policy. I commence by situating the school-leaving age policy within a broader field of reforms occurring under the general banner of neoliberalism and argue that the policy is primarily concerned with the conduct of students classified at "educational risk," and with transforming these students to become more visible, participative and engaged in their schooling. By focusing on the policy rationalities and technologies, and drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, I explore the forms of knowledge and practical strategies that are deployed in this policy field. I contend that this particular deployment narrowly constructs young people's experiences of schooling in ways that do not allow for a broader debate about their declining school attendance and what should be done to address it. (As Provided).
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