TY - JOUR
T1 - Pushing up against the limit-horizon of educational change
T2 - A critical discourse analysis of popular education reform texts
AU - Anderson, Ashlee
AU - Aronson, Brittany
AU - Ellison, Scott
AU - Fairchild-Keyes, Sherrie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Institute for Education Policy Studies. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - With this article, we work to identify the limit-horizon of possible ideas, practices, and ways of talking about education reform and schooling via a critical discourse analysis of selected popular political and governmental texts. To do so, we explore the popular discourse of education reform in the United States through our analyses of three very different yet over-lapping social texts: four policy speeches delivered by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in 2009 introducing the Race to the Top (RttT) initiative associated with the National Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009; news media coverage of those speeches and RttT; and, two widely publicized films dealing with the subject of education reform, Waiting for Superman & Won't Back Down.
AB - With this article, we work to identify the limit-horizon of possible ideas, practices, and ways of talking about education reform and schooling via a critical discourse analysis of selected popular political and governmental texts. To do so, we explore the popular discourse of education reform in the United States through our analyses of three very different yet over-lapping social texts: four policy speeches delivered by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in 2009 introducing the Race to the Top (RttT) initiative associated with the National Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009; news media coverage of those speeches and RttT; and, two widely publicized films dealing with the subject of education reform, Waiting for Superman & Won't Back Down.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84944623233
SN - 2051-0969
VL - 12
SP - 338
EP - 370
JO - Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
JF - Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
IS - 3
ER -