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Putting Discourse Theory into Practice

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This book is based on the critical analysis of publicly available policy documents relating to international students. I understand policy as discourse, drawing on a Foucauldian understanding of discourse. The approach to analysis has been informed by Carol Bacchi’s “what is the problem represented to be” framework.

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Lomer, S. (2017). Putting Discourse Theory into Practice. In: Recruiting International Students in Higher Education. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51073-6_4

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