China’s Fluctuating English Education Policy Discourses and Continuing Ambivalences in Identity Construction

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yihong GAO
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
English Education ◽  
English Education Policy ◽  
Policy Discourses

Commentary

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Jones
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
English Education ◽  
School Systems ◽  
European School ◽  
English Education Policy ◽  
Cultural Conservatism ◽  
Liberal Policy ◽  
West European

This commentary on Peter Dorey’s chapter sets Thatcherism’s distinctively English education policy in two broader contexts. Cultural conservatism and the introduction of quasi-markets are features of other west European school systems. English education, post-Thatcher, is marked out as different by the extent of marketization and the persistent intensity of its cultural politics. Looked at in a British context, the same kinds of contrast can be made: the school systems of all four nations of Britain may increasingly be shaped by neo-liberal policy formulae, but it is in England that such formulae are most potent.

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