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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"policy discourse"”.
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
… and the powerful influence of these companies on policymaking, have curbed efforts to introduce effective health policies. Much public health research has focussed on generating evidence to support effective policies that address these failures of our food systems. More recently, increasing …
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The Power Behind Postsecondary Attainment Goals: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
<p>In this study, I examined neoliberal discourses upheld by policy actors engaged in the college completion agenda that perpetuated power structures maintaining white supremacy by relying on the success of racially marginalized communities to meet postsecondary attainment goals. With philanthropic …
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The professionalization of adult education: a critical exploration of policy, discourse and practice
… education. It aims to investigate the effect of policy and regulatory changes that have taken place during the period 2000 to 2016. The study questions how these changes are altering the field, the identities and practices of practitioners and ultimately the experiences of adult learners. Adult …
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The Premature End Of Lifelong Learning? The Impact Of Policy Discourse On Older Learners
… is an examination of the interaction between policy discourses. It focuses on lifelong learning in relation to older (retired) learners and in the context of their acquisition of ICT skills. Policy is explored using a framework of espoused, enacted and experienced policy. This framework …
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Cutting edge: the evolution of capability advantage in Australian strategic policy discourse 1968-2009
… the twenty-first century it became a recurring policy concept and featured in public statements and diplomatic signals at the highest levels of government. Although the need for an ‘edge’ in military capability was articulated consistently in policy and political statements, the meaning of the …
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Cutting edge: the evolution of capability advantage in Australian strategic policy discourse 1968-2009
… the twenty-first century it became a recurring policy concept and featured in public statements and diplomatic signals at the highest levels of government. Although the need for an ‘edge’ in military capability was articulated consistently in policy and political statements, the meaning of the …
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Integrating artificial intelligence into K-12 teaching and learning: A U.S. critical policy discourse analaysis
… and learners. AI integration has been raising policy challenges to ensure ethical and equitable inclusions. Thus, emerging concerns have been directed toward forming new national educational policies to regulate the impact of AI in educational discourse. Nevertheless, education policymakers …
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Policy Discourse: Iranian Threat, Gulf Crisis and the Question of Khalijism
… 1981, the international and regional political discourse regarding the council’s establishment, achievements and challenges have revolved around loose and foggy concepts like: ‘GCC foreign policy’, ‘GCC collective security’, ‘GCC security alliance’, and ‘GCC influence on Gulf security’. While …
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Lost in technification : Uncovering the latent clash of societal values in Dutch public policy discourse on animal-testing alternatives
Contains fulltext : 151524.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Global policy discourse and local implementation dynamics : a case study of Lesotho's junior certificate religious and moral education syllabus
Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references.
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The imagined learner in neoliberal times :constructions of the South African learning subject in education policy discourse and school practice
… how the learner is imagined in current education policy discourse and to describe how key policy discourses are translated and interpreted in two case study schools. The thesis focuses on the analysis of discourse at three levels: policy, the school, and learner subjectivity. The study offers …
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"Ceausescu's Orphans": Narrating the Crisis of Romanian International Child Adoption
… the politics of Romanian International Adoption policy. The study focuses on the crisis period of 2001-2004 which ended with a ban on Romanian International Adoption. Policy discourse is examined in the sending country (Romania)and the major receiving country (the U.S.), and in two institutional …
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Governing Choice: A Critical Policy Analysis of Charter Schools in Indianapolis Through the Lens of Governmentality
… and the methodology of Critical Policy Analysis, this research addresses the question of how charter school policies reflect and reinforce governmental rationalities and power structures in Indianapolis, Indiana. The purpose of this research is to examine how charter school …
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Dealing with Carbon: Environmental Policy, Organizations, and Technological Responses to Climate Change
… governance: how contested technologies gain policy legitimacy, how entrepreneurs construct and moralize new environmental markets, and how expertise shapes American energy policy discourse. Through mixed-methods research including computational analysis of Senate communications (2000-2023), …
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The implementation of moderation of assessment policy at a school and district : a case study
… than examinations came into the forefront of policy discourse. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) introduced a Moderation Policy which was developmental in its approach of quality assurance of assessment...This study aimed to describe how the policy was understood and implemented at …
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From the Invisible Hand to the Invisible Woman: The Politics of Neutrality in the Context of Social Tax Expenditures
… account of gender in the implementation of tax policy. Moreover, the normative criteria for the analysis of tax regimes include concepts such as equity—which suggests that taxpayers in the same position should be treated the same way. We see the potential for a clash of interests between social …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
… This thesis investigates how Foucauldian discourse analytics, embracing concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, rationality and space can contribute in sensitising planning research to power. A Foucauldian approach is developed which problematises the construction of rationality in spatial …
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Governing Youth Work Through Problems: A WPR Analysis of the ‘Value for Money and Policy Review of Youth Programmes’
… through problems constituted in Government policy discourse. The purpose of the study is to critically analyse contemporary youth work policy in a context of neoliberal reform. The research specifically focused on analysing data from one particular policy text – the Value for Money and …
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Reporting unwanted sexual behavior at a post-secondary institution: an examination of campus policy
… in Ontario, Canada to create a sexual assault policy that involves student input. Using a small commuter university in southwestern Ontario as a case study, this thesis examines student perceptions of the policy. This research includes two parts. The first part consists of online qualitative …
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Discourse and the logic of education reform: crisis narratives in Kansas
Discourse analysis (DA) explores the relationships between discursive practices and wider social and cultural structures, relations, and processes. In this paper I explore, through a qualitative DA of education reporting in the Topeka Capital Journal (January 2014- January 2016), state press …
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