TY - JOUR
T1 - Un-braiding deficit discourse in Indigenous education news 2008–2018
T2 - performance, attendance and mobility
AU - McCallum, Kerry
AU - Waller, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Australian Research Council: [Grant Number IN15010100007].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article presents a time sensitive critical text analysis of Australian news reporting that has identified, mapped and analysed news reporting about Indigenous education from 2008 to 2018. Three key themes were identified: school attendance; performance as measured by national testing, and boarding school education. A braiding metaphor is introduced to illustrate how the three themes operated independently over time, intersected and together wove a discursive braid steeped in deficit. The analysis is an act of ‘unbraiding’ that aims to reveal how news media coverage was integral to constructing Indigenous education as an unquestioned problem for society, a policy problem for governments to solve and an intractable pedagogical conundrum.
AB - This article presents a time sensitive critical text analysis of Australian news reporting that has identified, mapped and analysed news reporting about Indigenous education from 2008 to 2018. Three key themes were identified: school attendance; performance as measured by national testing, and boarding school education. A braiding metaphor is introduced to illustrate how the three themes operated independently over time, intersected and together wove a discursive braid steeped in deficit. The analysis is an act of ‘unbraiding’ that aims to reveal how news media coverage was integral to constructing Indigenous education as an unquestioned problem for society, a policy problem for governments to solve and an intractable pedagogical conundrum.
KW - boarding school
KW - deficit discourse
KW - National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)
KW - News media and Indigenous education
KW - school attendance
KW - National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091082067&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17405904.2020.1817115
DO - 10.1080/17405904.2020.1817115
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091082067
SN - 1740-5904
VL - 19
SP - 73
EP - 92
JO - Critical Discourse Studies
JF - Critical Discourse Studies
IS - 1
ER -
