Economization of discourse on education and pedagogization of economic problems

Media debate on higher education reform in Poland

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ID2926850
AuthorsHelena Ostrowicka (0000-0003-2500-9581, Faculty of Pedagogy, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume43
Issue1
Pages86-100
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2020.1811957
OpenAlexW3084861303
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited18

The article presents results of research into the media debate on education in the context of higher education reform in Poland. The body of press materials comprised 884 texts. The theoretical basis included critical and post-Foucauldian discourse analysis. The study revealed five themes: (1) mechanisms of economic thematization; (2) expanding the narrative of the threat to education; (3) retention of ‘factories of the unemployed’ discourse; (4) recruiting the voice of entrepreneurs; (5) ontological work of the ‘copular’ metaphor that education is economics. Potentially contradictory logics of pedagogization and economization of discourse were publicly identified and consolidated toward integration of discursive strategies and semiotic reworking of the crisis in higher education

Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Global Education Systems and Policies · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Management and Organizational Practices

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