The (Un)deserving Adult: Examining British Columbia's Adult Basic Education Policy

Autor/inn/en	Walker, Jude; Smythe, Suzanne
Titel	The (Un)deserving Adult: Examining British Columbia's Adult Basic Education Policy
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 52 (2020) 2, S.195-214 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
DOI	10.1080/02660830.2019.1681241
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Basic Education; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Policy Formation; Neoliberalism; Politics of Education; Discourse Analysis; Educational Change; Educational History; Tuition; Low Income; Educational Finance; Retrenchment; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Politische Betätigung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Educational policy; Diskursanalyse; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Niedriglohn; Bildungsfonds; Kanada
Abstract	In 2015, the Government of British Columbia (BC), Canada, reversed a long-standing mandate to provide tuition-free Adult Basic Education (ABE) to all adults. Drawing upon internal government policy documents and inter- and intra-ministerial communications obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) tools, key policy documents, social media commentary, and documentation from protest events, the authors adopt an interpretive stance to re-tell this policy moment. Through their analysis, the authors observe struggles on behalf of government actors to adopt a coherent 'policy story' to legitimise the withdrawal of state resources for the education of marginalised citizens, falling back upon a Victorian era desert-based discourse. The study provides insights into the durability of deservingness discourses and the improvisational nature of neoliberal policy making. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01