(Re)Orientating Literacy Doxa in the Digital Age: The Discursive Practices of New Policy Actors

Autor/in	Bacalja, Alexander
Titel	(Re)Orientating Literacy Doxa in the Digital Age: The Discursive Practices of New Policy Actors
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31 (2023) 5, S.975-987 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bacalja, Alexander)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
DOI	10.1080/14681366.2021.1983856
Schlagwörter	Literacy; Ideology; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Discourse Analysis; Industry; Economic Factors; Basic Skills; Digital Literacy; Literacy Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Ideologie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Diskursanalyse; Industrie; Ökonomischer Faktor; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Australien
Abstract	Ideological struggles over the policy and practice of literacy education continue to characterise the field. This paper explores how 'new policy actors', market-orientated and profit-driven players, construct the crisis of literacy and schooling in Australia to reclaim the doxa of literacy education. The concept of doxa is employed to show how recent discursive practices are contributing to orthodox and heterodox positions. A mixed-methods content analysis was performed on reports produced by business groups and their proxies, analysing how these reports construct new narratives. The findings reveal how these stakeholders adopt a stance best characterised as the old doxa revisited and (re)orientated for new economic imperatives. A defence of literacy as 'common-sense' basic skills, in crisis, and predominantly developed through schooling for the purpose of work, is supplemented with a discourse which updates literacy doxa to include technological (media) dimensions where digital literacy skills are the 'new basics' of literacy education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01