The Press and the Mediatizing of Educational Policies

In the background of the transformations of the role of the state with regard to the definition of the public policies, particularly in the domain of education, this study seeks to question the relations between one of the means of mass communication – the press – and the construction of the education policies. Based on the analytical analysis of the journalistic discourse of three national daily newspapers, the intention is to question who are the most relevant voices authorised to express themselves and how this discourse concurs towards the construction of the dominant visions on education and influences the public acceptance and/or rejection of policies in this domain, contributing to the regulation of the education system, in the background of the reconfiguration of the public sphere.