[NLA] structural analysis and advocacy

[Catherine B. King]

Hello Eileen:

To your questions:  "How would policy advocacy based on
structural analysis be different from policy advocacy based
on an individualist analysis? . . . And, do we have to choose
one or the other, or can policy advocacy efforts based in
more than one type of analysis work together?"


It seems a matter of context.  The problem with either is not
the analyses themselves, but rather that different analyses
are viewed as a depiction of the whole, as if the theories
were competing with one another.

When in fact, individuals are always in a structural context
where the interaction between each, as well as many
other dimensions of the whole, including the often misunderstood
area of applications, are interwoven and mutually informative
making for a dynamism that policy either does or does not take
account of.

If so, a "best practices" of policy formation should be based on a
holistic view with an opening for creative change and local authority
incorporated into the policy? (This is education and not a natural
science lab or a [positivistic] factory?  The emergence of diversity
in forming educational practices, and the questions surrounding it,
is an example of why there should be allowances for flexibility and
change in policy, and local authority that have a longer vision of
things.)

But the theoretical and analytical questions we can bring to
any concrete situation are endless.  The problem is also our
singular adherence to conceptual formations.

I would argue that this, combined with our misconception of the
part as the whole in a side-by-side notion of different analyses,
contributes to our confusion in any field of human education and
study, and consequently in the underlying order of policy making.

Regards,

Catherine King

----- Original Message -----
From: Eileen Eckert <eileeneckert at hotmail.com>
To: <nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:16 AM
Subject: [NLA] structural analysis and advocacy


> Linda and others,
> How would policy advocacy based on structural analysis be different from
> policy advocacy based on an individualist analysis?
>
> And, do we have to choose one or the other, or can policy advocacy efforts
> based in more than one type of analysis work together?
>
> Thanks,
> Eileen
>
>
>
>
>
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