Manufacturing Consent: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of New Labour's educational governance

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 562-578

  Mulderrig, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus based critical discourse analysis; Educational governance; Managerialism; New Labour; Personalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551490998     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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