Exley, Sonia 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4240-3070
(2009)
Emerging discourses within the English ‘choice advice’ policy network.
London Review of Education, 7 (3).
pp. 249-260.
ISSN 1474-8460
Abstract
This paper examines regulating discourses ‘spoken’ within the complex multi‐sector network of educational policy and provision that has grown from a recent introduction of choice advisers in England. Choice advice documentation from across the network is examined and four discursive themes are identified: equity; parental responsibility; independence/impartiality; and realism. The paper suggests that choice advice – as an English policy case illustrating broader social and political trends – superficially promotes empowerment for disadvantaged parents with a depoliticised, managerial approach while disempowering them by diverting attention away from wider stratification and shifting responsibility for educational quality away from the state.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/clreauth.a... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Taylor and Francis |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2011 13:51 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 07:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/37979 |
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