Researching literacy policy: Conceptualizing trends in the field

The Literacy Policy Project examines the trends in UK government policy interventions into literacy curriculum and pedagogies schools England. We undertake a scholarship methodology to read texts through conceptual framework that frames with functional, realist or socially critical purposes. identify how successive governments have primarily adopted functional policies research relating argue is dictated by, serves, growing marketplace for educational solutions, making case more prominence should be given facilitating approaches policy.