Bacchi’s questions

Examine the language and ‘discourse’ used in the document; draw on excerpts from the policy document to explain how social issues are represented and addressed.

A 2000 word written commentary analysing a policy document (e.g. speech, report, white paper, recommendations/guidelines, etc.) related to the chosen issue:Educational Inequality. The commentary should critically examine the public policy response, using Bacchi’s questions: How the social issue is constructed as a public policy problem? What presuppositions or assumptions underlie this representation of the problem? […]

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