Jones, P (2008) ''Requisite irony' and the 'knowledge based economy': a critical discourse analysis of the drafting of education policy in the European Union.' In: Jessop, B, Fairclough, N and Wodak, R, eds. Education and the knowledge based economy in Europe. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 127-148. ISBN 9789087906238
Abstract
This book addresses the recent impact of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ as an economic ‘imaginary’ and as a set of real economic developments on education, and especially higher education in Europe, including educational strategies and policies such as those of the Bologna process on a European scale. The contributors come from various disciplinary backgrounds (education, history, linguistics, sociology) but share a commitment to trans-disciplinary research and a view that changes in educational policy and practice can productively be researched with a focus on discourse. The papers in this collection apply a range of approaches to discourse analysis, as well as narrative policy analysis, and several contributors use a cultural political economy perspective which incorporates a version of critical discourse analysis. The book will be of interest to researchers, post-graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in several subject areas, including education, discourse studies and political economy.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter or Section |
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| Keywords: | higher education, state, European Union countries, economics, knowledge-based economy |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | School of Education |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2013 13:43 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2022 14:01 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/1092 |
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