Description
This study sought to analyze the messages being conveyed through the discourse utilized in presenting the public face of The Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board, popularly known as First Things First (FTF) and to reveal how the different discourses and ideologies within FTF have been in the past and currently are "contending and struggling for dominance (Wodak, 2007)." FTF is located within the policy realm of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). The people and the system have been very influential in guiding the course and policies set forth in Arizona since the citizen initiative, Proposition 203, passed in 2006, which allowed for the creation of the Early Childhood Development and Health Board. Lakoff's techniques for analyzing frames of discourse were utilized in conjunction with critical discourse analysis in order to tease out frames of reference, shifts in both discourse and frames, specific modes of messaging, and consistencies and inconsistencies within the public face presented by FTF.
Details
Title
- Mixed messages: best practice, quality, and readiness : the power of discourse to shape an Arizona early childhood system
Contributors
- Miller, Lisa (Author)
- Swadener, Elizabeth B (Thesis advisor)
- Nakagawa, Kathy (Committee member)
- Romero, Mary (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2013
Subjects
- Early Childhood Education
- Education Policy
- Education
- best practice
- Discourse analysis
- Early Childhood
- Educational Policy
- linguistic framework
- Quality
- Early childhood education--Social aspects--Arizona.
- Early Childhood Education
- Education and state--Social aspects--Arizona.
- Education and state
- Discourse analysis--Social aspects--Arizona.
- Discourse analysis
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2013
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 130-141)
- Field of study: Curriculum and instruction
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Lisa Miller