The Media's Coverage of 'Closing the Gap' in Australian Education

Autor/inn/en	Heffernan, Troy A.; Maxwell, Jacinta
Titel	The Media's Coverage of 'Closing the Gap' in Australian Education
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41 (2020) 6, S.926-939 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2019.1592365
Schlagwörter	News Reporting; Academic Achievement; Achievement Gap; Web Sites; Public Policy; Indigenous Populations; Foreign Countries; Literacy; National Competency Tests; Numeracy; Newspapers; Data Analysis; Elementary Secondary Education; Discourse Analysis; Australia; National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? News report; Reportage; Schulleistung; Web-Design; Öffentliche Ordnung; Sinti und Roma; Ausland; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Rechenkompetenz; Newspaper; Zeitung; Auswertung; Diskursanalyse; Australien
Abstract	Since 2007, 'Closing the Gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people has been an ambition of Australian state and federal governments in areas including education, employment, and health. This paper examines media responses to government policies aimed at closing the achievement gap in schools. The paper analyses print and online newspaper articles in national and capital city/state-based newspapers that reported on the implementation and success of Closing the Gap policies in Australia's schools. The paper argues that media narratives are often based on NAPLAN results, data sourced from the "MySchool" website, or newspaper-created metrics that support their own narrative. This paper highlights the narratives being purported to readers via the selective nature of newspaper data, and subsequently how these narratives attempt to influence the public discourse. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01