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"In recent years the Premier\u2019s Technology Council has drawn on the rhetoric of \u201821st-century education\u2019 to frame discussions of educational policy and reform in British Columbia. BC\u2019s Teacher\u2019s Federation, in contrast, has challenged the appropriateness of \u201821st-century education\u2019, and has called for a more systematic interrogation of the contours, coherence, and value of the \u201821st-century\u2019 policy narrative. Acceding to this warrant, this paper builds upon my ongoing inquiry into \u201821st-century education\u2019. Taking the Technology Council\u2019s \u201Cspecial report\u201D on \u201821st-century education\u2019 as a site of analysis, this paper draws on the tools of critical discourse analysis to identify and problematize instances of agency, modality, and validity in the Technology Council\u2019s vision for \u201821st-century education\u2019. In sharing this inquiry I hope to highlight the need for sustained critical engagement with educational policies in BC."@en
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