Interpretive: Post-structuralist Foucault's 'geneaology', Ball (1993), Gale (2000) Discourse is socially constitutive, in dialectical relation to practice – sets up systems of power/ knowledge, norms & values Policy as political artefact – as text & discourse – with unequal material & discursive effects that should be exposed Policy has a normalising & regulatory role, sets up subject positions that constrain ways of speaking & thinking Technologization of language for institutional ends How do certain discourses become dominant.
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