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Abstract

This study establishes a field analytic approach for investigating and comaparing the influence of the print news media on educational politics in England and Germany. We identify cases from each country where national, regional and local newspapers act as intermediaries between actors engaged in discussions about schools and then subject these to field analyses focused on the form and content of press coverage. This allows us to identify in each country the role of newspapers as sites of political debate, as political actors and as shapers of public opinion.

Publication Date

2025-10-25

Publication Title

European Education

Volume

57

Issue

4

ISSN

1056-4934

Acceptance Date

2025-01-01

Deposit Date

2025-11-03

Funding

This study is part of the CODIP project which has been funded by the Quality Initiative Teacher Training (Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung), a joint initiative of Federal Government and the German states. The financial means were provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [Support code: 01JA2002].

First Page

362

Last Page

378

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