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The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: A license for commercialisation

The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: A license for commercialisation
The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: A license for commercialisation
The paper explores the policy logics of privatisation through service provision for students with English as an Additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in the state education system of Queensland, Australia. In the context of EAL/D, specifically targeted policy has been subsumed by a broader umbrella or meta-policy of inclusion, whilst at the same time, funding support for EAL/D learners is substantial. The devolution of EAL/D support to individual schools through autonomous targeted funding results in policy ‘everywhere’, distributed across broad portfolios dedicated to ensuring schools provide quality education services for all learners, but also ‘nowhere’, lacking systemic support and detail on how inclusion should be enacted for EAL/D and with no accountability placed on schools to demonstrate that they are addressing EAL/D learner needs. The co-location of EAL/D policy with a broad systemic policy of inclusion, the absence of systemic professional support, combined with devolution to school sites has had real effects on the policy in practice. The analysis demonstrates there is the potential opening of EAL/D provision to market forces at school sites, where the private sector can potentially sell commercial ‘solutions’ directly to schools, which have greater autonomy over one-line budgets. Copyright © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
English as an additional language (EAL), commercialisation, inclusion, policy enactment, privatisation, structural reform
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Anna, Hogan
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Bob, Lingard
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Choi, Tae-Hee
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Bob, Lingard
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Choi, Tae-Hee
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Sue, Creagh, Anna, Hogan, Bob, Lingard and Choi, Tae-Hee (2022) The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: A license for commercialisation. Journal of Education Policy. (doi:10.1080/02680939.2022.2037721).

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The paper explores the policy logics of privatisation through service provision for students with English as an Additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in the state education system of Queensland, Australia. In the context of EAL/D, specifically targeted policy has been subsumed by a broader umbrella or meta-policy of inclusion, whilst at the same time, funding support for EAL/D learners is substantial. The devolution of EAL/D support to individual schools through autonomous targeted funding results in policy ‘everywhere’, distributed across broad portfolios dedicated to ensuring schools provide quality education services for all learners, but also ‘nowhere’, lacking systemic support and detail on how inclusion should be enacted for EAL/D and with no accountability placed on schools to demonstrate that they are addressing EAL/D learner needs. The co-location of EAL/D policy with a broad systemic policy of inclusion, the absence of systemic professional support, combined with devolution to school sites has had real effects on the policy in practice. The analysis demonstrates there is the potential opening of EAL/D provision to market forces at school sites, where the private sector can potentially sell commercial ‘solutions’ directly to schools, which have greater autonomy over one-line budgets. Copyright © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Accepted/In Press date: 31 January 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 February 2022
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords: English as an additional language (EAL), commercialisation, inclusion, policy enactment, privatisation, structural reform

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Local EPrints ID: 470850
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/470850
PURE UUID: 9ad48077-1f93-442b-9284-62e4f94a4528
ORCID for Tae-Hee Choi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8840-4082

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Date deposited: 20 Oct 2022 16:38
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 07:33

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Author: Creagh Sue
Author: Hogan Anna
Author: Lingard Bob
Author: Tae-Hee Choi ORCID iD

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