Policy discourse in times of crisis
Debating educational policy in Portugal in the years of austerity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Álvares (0000-0002-0245-2970) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 742-762 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.21054.alv |
| OpenAlex | W4220706173 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
The current paper explores the relation between deliberation, political legitimization and decision making in educational policy in the aftermath of the intervention by the troika in Portugal in 2011. Centring on political debates about equal opportunities in education in the Portuguese parliament, it explores how arguments, such as ‘crisis’ and ‘change’, were employed to frame – and covertly promote – a concession of sovereignty to international organizations and legitimize a turn in policy-making to an austerity doctrine regarding education policies. Findings reveal the interplay between a loose and polyphonic discourse of international organizations, and the construction of a narrative of failure regarding educational policies previously adopted, recontextualized and thus enabled the change towards neoliberal policies in Portuguese education policies, bringing about a leaner concept of equal opportunities in education at the national level
Austerity · Deliberation · Doctrine · Education policy · Higher education · Narrative · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · Sovereignty · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Law · Public Administration
Pisa 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background
Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse
Ideology
Intertextuality in critical discourse analysis
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
Trivializing inequality by narrating facts
The argumentative turn in public policy revisited
Puzzling and powering in policy paradigm shifts
Concept Stretching
Discourse Analysis and the Study of Policy Making
The future of the European “social model” in the global economy
From Beliefs to Arguments
Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism
Examining the influence of international large-scale assessments on national education policies
Education, meritocracy and the global war for talent
Externalisations in the Portuguese parliament
Narrating Crisis
From metaphors to measures
Ideology and discourse analysis
Paradigms and Paradox
Fault lines in education
International leadership re-/constructed
Knowledge in parliamentary debates
Taking ideas and discourse seriously
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Discursive Shifts in Ethno-Nationalist Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |