Reading policy texts
Lifelong learning as metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11425166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Nicoll (corresponding author), Richard Edwards (0000-0002-0234-8268) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 459-469 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Lifelong Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-1370 • E-ISSN: 1464-519X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/026013700445576 |
| OpenAlex | W2148835754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 21 |
As lifelong learning becomes a greater focus for policy at local, national and supranational levels, a question emerges as to how to engage in policy analysis. This is a debate, which is already taking place in relation to policy analysis in other sectors of education. However, this has had little influence on policy studies in lifelong learning. This paper reviews the wider debates and argues for the productiveness of a discursive approach to policy analysis. In particular, it argues that the notion of metaphor can be deployed in such analysis to good effect. This is illustrated through an initial analysis of the UK government's 1998 Green Paper, The Learning Age: a Renaissance for a New Britain
Adult education · Discourse analysis · Government (linguistics · Lifelong learning · Linguistics · Metaphor · Pedagogy · Policy analysis · Policy learning · Political economy · Political science · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · The Renaissance · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · History · Law · Public Administration · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
The role of gender in multisensory reading
Linking beliefs in reading with lifelong learning tendencies among undergraduates
Programmanalyse – Methoden und Forschungen
The inclusion and construction of the worthy citizen through lifelong learning
Lifelong learning and the sultans of spin
Researching the rhetoric of lifelong learning
Visual imagery, lifecourse structure and lifelong learning
Research and policy in lifelong learning
Education reform
Representing Reality
Discourse and Cognition
Mappings in Thought and Language
Postmodernism and Education
Discourse and social change
Cultural Studies as Critical Theory
Postmodernism is Not What You Think
Big Policies/Small World
An Epidemic of Education Policy
Rethinking the public and private spheres
Researching the impact of education policy
Migrating metaphors
The ‘Policy Cycle’
Policy analysis, values and complexity
The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents
Policy archaeology
Three steps towards a learning society
Critical Policy Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |