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  • Academic research and public debates: A media analysis of the proposed Australian Phonics Check

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    Author(s)
    Baroutsis, Aspa
    Woods, Annette
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    Baroutsis, Aspa
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    This chapter engages with current public and political debates that advocate for one best method of teaching literacy. Such debates often surface in media coverage and give rise to negative public perceptions of literacy learning in schools. We use moves to introduce a Phonics Check into the early years of school in Australia as an example to think about whose voices are heard and come to matter in policy debates, and the impact of contemporary communications methods on policy debates. The policy suggestion has been billed as working toward the provision of important information about young children to their teachers, but ...
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    This chapter engages with current public and political debates that advocate for one best method of teaching literacy. Such debates often surface in media coverage and give rise to negative public perceptions of literacy learning in schools. We use moves to introduce a Phonics Check into the early years of school in Australia as an example to think about whose voices are heard and come to matter in policy debates, and the impact of contemporary communications methods on policy debates. The policy suggestion has been billed as working toward the provision of important information about young children to their teachers, but has been critiqued for presenting nonsense words to young readers, and for ignoring the professional capacity of early years’ teachers in assessing and knowing what children can do and need, without the need for standardized tests. We examine this policy, which is part of a suite of policy initiatives that imbalance professionalism and prescription in schools in current times, through contemporary print and social media.
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    Book Title
    Literacies in Early Childhood: Foundations for Equitable, Quality Pedagogy
    Publisher URI
    https://www.oup.com.au/books/higher-education/education/9780190305147-literacies-in-early-childhood
    Copyright Statement
    © 2020 OUP. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter, published in Literacies in Early Childhood: Foundations for Equitable, Quality Pedagogy edited by A. Woods & B Exley, 5 Dec 2019, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, https://www.oup.com.au/books/higher-education/education/9780190305147-literacies-in-early-childhood
    Subject
    Education
    education research
    phonics
    media research
    social media
    literacy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/388837
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