![]() ![]() While Bacchi’s WPR approach has gained some traction in social policy analysis internationally, and within the broad field of education (see, for example, Loutzenheiser Citation2015, Bills and Howard Citation2017, Lomer Citation2017, Skovhus and Thomsen Citation2017, Beutler and Feneca Citation2018, Magnússon et al. WPR provides a systematic methodology to critically question ‘the taken-for-granted assumptions that lodge in government policies and policy proposals by interrogating (problematising) the problem representations it uncovers within them’ (Bacchi Citation2009, p. The approach is not concerned with ‘ intentionality’ and identifying ‘ gaps between the terms of a specific policy and what is actually delivered’ but rather with the ‘ deep conceptual premises’ on which policies are built (Bacchi Citation2009, p. The approach challenges the dominant ‘problem- solving’ paradigm in policy research and instead proposes a new ‘problem- questioning’ paradigm (Bacchi Citation2009, p. ![]() Carol Bacchi’s ( Citation2009, Citation2012) ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) approach to policy analysis provides a novel way of thinking about and analysing policy. ![]()
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