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A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Betsy DeVos’s Education Policy Discourse  \nMichael Ian Cohen  \nUniversity of Northern Colorado  \nUnited States  \nCitation: Cohen, M. I. (2021). Education populism? A corpus-driven analysis of Betsy DeVos’s education policy discourse. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(16) .  \n[https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5868](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5868)  \nAbstract: Scholars of political economy have raised the question of whether recent populist movements around the world signal the decline of neoliberal hegemony. What would such a decline mean for education policy, an arena that has been dominated by a neoliberal common sense for several decades? This study investigates the policy discourse of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, in order to assess the extent to which it aligns with the neoliberal common sense or draws upon discourses of populism that have been gaining traction in the last few years. Using methods of corpus linguistics, I engage in a critical discourse analysis of 59 of DeVos’s public speeches delivered between 2017 and 2019 in comparison with a reference corpus of speeches delivered by DeVos’s predecessors in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. The findings, informed by Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism as political logic and discourse, suggest that DeVos deploys several features of populist discourse even as she advocates policies that are characteristically neoliberal. I consider the implications of this discourse for education policy in the US.  \nKeywords: education policy; populism; neoliberal reform; privatization; policy discourse; corpusdriven critical discourse analysis  \n¿Populismo educativo? Un análisis del discurso de la política educativa de Betsy DeVos  \nResumen: Investigadores de economía política se han preguntado si los movimientos populistas contemporáneos alrededor del mundo señalan el declive de la hegemonía neoliberal. ¿Qué significaría tal declive para la política educativa, un ámbito que ha estado dominado por los ideales neoliberales durante varias décadas? Este estudio investiga el discurso político de Betsy DeVos, secretaria de Educación de Estados Unidos en la administración del Presidente Donald Trump, para evaluar cómo se alinea con el sentido común neoliberal o se basa en discursos de populismo que se han incrementado en los últimos años. Utilizando métodos de lingüística de corpus, participo en un análisis crítico del discurso de 59 discursos públicos pronunciados por Devos entre 2017 y 2019 en comparación con un corpus de discursos pronunciados por los antecesores de DeVos en las administraciones de George W. Bush y Barack Obama. Informados por la teoría de Ernesto Laclau del populismo como lógica y discurso político, los hallazgos sugieren que DeVos despliega varias características del discurso populista incluso cuando defiende políticas que son característicamente neoliberales. Considero las implicaciones de este discurso para la política educativa en Estados Unidos.  \nPalabras-clave: política educativa; populismo; reforma neoliberal; privatización; discursode política; análisis crítico del discurso  \nPopulismo da educação? Uma análise do discurso da política educacional de Betsy DeVos  \nResumo: Pesquisadores de economia política têm questionado se os movimentos populistas contemporâneos ao redor do mundo sinalizam o declínio da hegemonia neoliberal. O que tal declínio significaria para a política educacional, uma arena que tem sido dominada pelos ideais neoliberais por várias décadas? Este estudo investiga o discurso político de Betsy DeVos, secretária de Educação dos Estados Unidos na administração do Presidente Donald Trump, para avaliar como ele se alinha","cbCaivfeFag8m2Cr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivfeFag8m2Cr","pdf",480617,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Neoliberal common sense in U.S. education policy\n## Research purpose and approach","[{\"question\":\"What question does the study address about populism and education policy?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates whether contemporary populist movements signal the decline of neoliberal hegemony, and what such a decline would mean for education policy dominated by neoliberal common sense for decades.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study analyze Betsy DeVos’s education policy discourse?\",\"answer\":\"Using corpus linguistics methods and critical discourse analysis, it examines 59 public speeches delivered between 2017 and 2019.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the findings suggest about DeVos’s discourse?\",\"answer\":\"The results, informed by Ernesto Laclau’s theory, suggest that DeVos deploys multiple features of populist discourse even while advocating policies that remain characteristically neoliberal.\"}]","Education Populism? 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