Contribution of Newspaper Images to Public Dialogue About Education, 1999

The project was based upon the view that messages about education, communicated publicly in newspapers are made up of images and texts. These messages can be narrative in form, a dialogue or representative of a particular standpoint. They are placed in a physical, social and political context and contain recognizable public figures. The purpose of this research was to examine the messages national newspapers communicate and to collect the educational images (e.g. photographs, cartoons, drawings etc.); the texts which accompany them (e.g. headlines, sub-headings, reports and articles etc.); and by using teacher focus groups to see how these influence teachers' construction of dialogue. The dataset contains information collected by questionnaires distributed to teachers in the North West of England.