Accessing the International Baccalaureate: class, growth and marketisation in Australian schools, 2008–2019

Dulfer, Nicky; Dawborn-Gundlach, Merryn

doi:10.1080/14767724.2022.2095500

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“…For these reasons, looking at the media as a source of non-IB generated texts provided an important window into perceptions of the IB in everyday interaction. In addition, the IB context evinces the relative scarcity of diachronic research noted by Marchi (2018), as there are only two studies to date that have examined the IB over a period of time, of which both rely on information provided by the organization (Dulfer & Dawborn-Gundlach, 2022;Tarc, 2009). Alan Partington's approach to diachronic corpus research has been highly influential, as attested by this Special Issue, and has been discussed by many authors, (see for example in Anna Marchi's (2018) excellent discussion of the topic.…”

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Serendipity and surprise: A diachronic analysis of <em>International Baccalaureate</em> in the global press 1977-2019

Fitzgerald

2024

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This study examines perceptions of the International Baccalaureate (IB) over five decades to better understand its growing influence on education systems around the world. As part of the global education industry, the IB plays an important role in shaping national public education discourse. Building on previous synchronic analyses that used a corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) approach, the present study conducts a diachronic exploration of the same 28 million word corpus of global press articles to see how perceptions of the IB may have changed over its 55-year history. Trends over time revealed five main shifts in IB discourse: (i) from education to brand; (ii) from concrete curriculum-related lexis to recurring value-laden terms; (iii) from comparison to competition with other national curricula; (iv) from academic qualification to institutional regulation; and (v) from students to IB coordinator. Findings also showed a stable group of collocates that occurred consistently across all time periods, pointing to an “invariant core” (Morley & Partington, 2009) meaning of the IB that provides fresh insight into how the dominant view of the IB as a singular standardized brand may be entrenched and taken for granted.

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Serendipity and surprise: A diachronic analysis of <em>International Baccalaureate</em> in the global press 1977-2019

Fitzgerald

2024

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From Argentina to Zimbabwe: Exploring the global appeal of the International Baccalaureate

Fitzgerald

2024

Applied Corpus Linguistics

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Cosmopolitan nationalism in action: navigating global educational mandates in Ecuador’s public schools

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Samaniego

2024

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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Accessing the International Baccalaureate: class, growth and marketisation in Australian schools, 2008–2019

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Serendipity and surprise: A diachronic analysis of <em>International Baccalaureate</em> in the global press 1977-2019

Serendipity and surprise: A diachronic analysis of <em>International Baccalaureate</em> in the global press 1977-2019

From Argentina to Zimbabwe: Exploring the global appeal of the International Baccalaureate

Cosmopolitan nationalism in action: navigating global educational mandates in Ecuador’s public schools

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