Gubernatorial Rhetoric and the Purpose of Education in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.22230/ijepl.2011v6n6a277Keywords:
purpose of education, educational policy, state governorsAbstract
For decades, scholars have debated the purpose of U.S. education, but too often ignored how non-education-related power brokers define education or the requisite consequences.[Qu: Is there a different way of phrasing this? I'm not sure, in reading it, what you intend "the requisite consequences" to mean. Does this mean the results of education, or the consequences of inaccurate definitions of it? Also, may we rephrase "non-education-related power brokers" to something like "power brokers without education experience"?]This study examines how one of the most prominent categories of U.S. leaders, state governors, defines education and discusses the policy implications. We examine gubernatorial rhetoric—that is, public speeches—about education, collected from State of the State speeches from 2001 to 2008. In all, one purpose gains overwhelmingly more attention—economic efficiency. As long as governors and the general public, seen enthymematically through gubernatorial rhetoric, define education in economic terms, other purposes will likely remain marginalized, leading to education policies designed disproportionately to advance economic ends.Downloads
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2011-09-23
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Carpenter, D. M. (2011). Gubernatorial Rhetoric and the Purpose of Education in the United States. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 6(6). https://doi.org/10.22230/ijepl.2011v6n6a277
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