Converting to Privatization: A Discourse Analysis of Dyslexia Policy Narratives

Autor/in	Gabriel, Rachael E.
Titel	Converting to Privatization: A Discourse Analysis of Dyslexia Policy Narratives
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 57 (2020) 1, S.305-338 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gabriel, Rachael E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831219861945
Schlagwörter	Dyslexia; Discourse Analysis; Special Education; Educational Policy; State Legislation; Policy Analysis; Psychology; Advocacy; Privatization; Public Schools; Reading Difficulties; Student Attitudes; Personal Narratives; Private Schools; Educational Legislation; Elementary Secondary Education; Connecticut + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dyslexics; Legasthenie; Lese-Rechtschreib-Schwäche; Diskursanalyse; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Landesrecht; Politikfeldanalyse; Psychologie; Sozialanwaltschaft; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Schülerverhalten; Erlebniserzählung; Private school; Privatschule; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz
Abstract	In this study, I analyze written testimony submitted to the state legislature regarding Connecticut's 2014 Act Concerning Dyslexia and Special Education (PA-14-39), in order to engage with the discourse and rhetoric occasioned by the policy-making process and investigate the phenomenon of dyslexia in contemporary education policy. Drawing on critical discursive psychology, positioning theory, and narrative policy analysis, I examine how dyslexia advocacy discourse forms a cohesive, compelling policy narrative. I argue that this narrative can be understood as a conversion narrative, which drives a privatization agenda in which public schools become mandated consumers for a growing dyslexia industry, and in which the nature of instruction for students with reading difficulties is narrowly prescribed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/1/01