Discourses of delusion in demanding times
A critical analysis of the career education and guidance policy guidelines for New Zealand secondary schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12645249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barrie A Irving (0000-0003-4650-3781, University of Otago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-195 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1443-9883 • E-ISSN: 1448-0980 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1108/qrj-03-2013-0019 |
| OpenAlex | W1599637510 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how critical discourse analysis can help to uncover the dominant discursive formations that underlie policy guidelines within education. Focusing on the policy guidelines for career education and guidance in New Zealand, it illustrates how these have been used by the state in an attempt to normalise ideological standpoints, shape “common‐sense” thinking and delimit the scope of practice. Design/methodology/approach Critical discourse analysis was employed as this approach helps to uncover the hidden meanings, political imperatives and uneven workings of power/dominance and oppression that are employed in/through textual representations. Findings Neoliberal discourse is infused throughout the policy guidelines for career education and guidance in New Zealand, and demands that career advisers/teachers should produce entrepreneurial and self‐responsibilised global economic subjects. Research limitations/implications Although this paper is situated within a New Zealand context, given the creeping influence of neoliberalism in many English‐speaking states, the issues identified have international relevance in relation to the kind of citizen career education is expected to produce. Originality/value Much of the literature within the career arena adopts an uncritical, and apolitical, stance, with the truth‐claims made by neoliberal states tending to be positioned as authoritative and inviolable. Drawing from critical theory, this paper contributes a social justice perspective that looks beneath the surface of the seemingly benign and well‐intentioned discourses that permeate the guidelines for career education and guidance in New Zealand
Context (archaeology · Critical discourse analysis · Critical theory · Discourse analysis · Dominance (genetics · Epistemology · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Oppression · Originality · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Higher Education and Employability · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law
Official Knowledge
Politics and Policy Making in Education
Globalizing Education Policy
Chapter 1
European Policy of Career Guidance
Inclusion and Democracy
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Critical Discourse Analysis
The Enigma of Capital
On being a ‘boundary person’
The Denial of Difference
Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
Social inclusion and social exclusion in England
Fantasies of empowerment
The concept of social exclusion and the new Durkheimian hegemony
Counseling for Work and Relationship
Critical social research and education policy
Critical frames in educational research
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