Abstract:
Analyses of communicative power and media influence have again become the subject of academic debate and publication, but these discussions have rarely addressed the discipline of education. In a mediation on television and the 'Other' news of journalistic practice, Langer (1998) examines the 'work of ideology' in popular journalism. The conceptual frameworks suggested could usefully be applied to understanding the role that education is believed to play in social activity. As a preliminary exercise to an investigation of the nature of the media's role in the construction of an ideology of education, this paper maps the topics of educational interest that were reported throughout 1997 in two Australian, 'quality' daily newspapers.