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‘Communities are where it all happens’: Tracing discourses of sustainability in the destatisation of adult literacy education in British Columbia, Canada

Name: ‘Communities are where it all happens’: Tracing discourses of sustainability in the destatisation of adult literacy education in British Columbia, Canada
Creator: Suzanne Smythe
Keywords: Adult Literacy, Policy, Sustainability, 4. Education, Adult Literacy; Policy; Neoliberalism; Sustainability; Destatisation, Neoliberalism, Destatisation, L, Education, 12. Responsible consumption

‘Le comunità sono i luoghi in cui tutto accade’: Un’analisi dei discorsi sulla sostenibilità della destatalizzazione nella Columbia Britannica dell’alfabetizzazione degli adulti

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Dec 2014 Italy English Publisher:Dipartimento di Scienze per la Qualità della VitaJournal:Encyclopaideia (issn: 1590-492X,

Authors: Suzanne Smythe;

doi: 10.6092/issn.1825-8670/4659

‘Communities are where it all happens’: Tracing discourses of sustainability in the destatisation of adult literacy education in British Columbia, Canada

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Abstract

Using tools of critical discourse analysis and the concept of ‘strategic ambiguity’ (Eisenburg, 1984; Leitch & Davenport, 2007), the author traces the keyword ‘sustainability’ across the textual landscape of a literacy policy project in British Columbia, arguing that the ambiguity of the term sustainability allowed for consensus to coalesce around a policy project oriented to the destatisation (Jessop, 2002) of adult literacy education. The case suggests implications for how policy networks are “discourse-driven” and the importance for literacy educators and those in less powerful positions in a policy network to attend carefully to how words are used to gain consensus for controversial policy projects.

Encyclopaideia, Vol 18, No 40 (2014)

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Italy

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Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
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Adult Literacy, Policy, Sustainability, Adult Literacy; Policy; Neoliberalism; Sustainability; Destatisation, Neoliberalism, Destatisation, L, Education

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