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Narrative Policy Analysis of Prior Learning Assessment: Implications for Democratic Participation in Higher Education Policy Making

Price, Monica Hatfield
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1454610356

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Higher Education (Education).
Policy making in higher education is highly consequential. As such, we need to consider how opposing policy advocates strategically craft narratives to advantage their side of a policy issue. In this study, prior learning assessment (PLA), which is the educational practice of awarding college credit for learning that occurred outside the college classroom, provides the sample policy issue through which to consider policy narratives. This is the first research utilizing the Narrative Policy Framework in the study of a higher education policy issue. The PLA policy narratives created by Ohio policy makers, higher education newspapers, and prominent PLA advocacy groups are analyzed. Results suggest the structure of the dominant pro-PLA narrative advantages the pro-PLA policy stance. The results also suggest that PLA policy narratives do not typically include the voices of diverse democratic participants. The findings of asymmetry and bias in PLA policy narratives are discussed.
Laura Harrison (Committee Chair)
Scott Titsworth (Committee Member)
David Horton, Jr. (Committee Member)
Michael Williford (Committee Member)
202 p.
Higher Education; Public Policy
policy narratives; Narrative Policy Framework; democratic participation; policy process; prior learning assessment; higher education policy process; Ohio higher education; higher education newspapers

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  • Price, M. H. (2016). Narrative Policy Analysis of Prior Learning Assessment: Implications for Democratic Participation in Higher Education Policy Making [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1454610356

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Price, Monica. Narrative Policy Analysis of Prior Learning Assessment: Implications for Democratic Participation in Higher Education Policy Making. 2016. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1454610356.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Price, Monica. "Narrative Policy Analysis of Prior Learning Assessment: Implications for Democratic Participation in Higher Education Policy Making." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1454610356

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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