Selling visions for education: What do Australian politicians believe in, who are they trying to convince and how?

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Selling visions for education: What do Australian politicians believe in, who are they trying to convince and how?

This article analyses the educational visions put forward by Australian federal politicians in their maiden (first) speeches to Parliament. The theoretical approach was a Habermasian-based analysis of the communication strategies adopted by the politicians, meaning that it was not only the content o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pitman, Tim
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Australian Council for Educational Research 2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12357

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