Historical and legislative evolutions of education policy have repurposed federally funded adult education programs in the United States. The 2014 passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) has considerable repercussions for everyone involved in the field because it controls the funding, assessment, and structure of these programs. Using critical discourse analysis, this study examines the public law and a Program Memorandum from the federal government. It demonstrates how the language used in the documents characterizes Title II of WIOA (the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act), the goals of adult education, eligible adult learners, and the process by which programs are held accountable for federal funding. The findings show the ways in which Title II tactically legitimizes the U.S. government’s neoliberal capitalist desire within a democratic society: The idealistic language of opportunity acts as a camouflage for the further infiltration of market-oriented practices into the public sector.

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“生产人力资本”：《劳动力创新与机会法案》（WIOA）第二标题的批判性话语分析

教育政策的历史和立法演变已将联邦资助的美国成人教育计划重新定位。2014年通过的《劳动力创新和机会法案》（WIOA）对参与该领域的每个人都有相当大的影响，因为它控制着这些计划的资金，评估和结构。本研究使用批判性话语分析方法研究了公法和联邦政府的计划备忘录。它展示了文档中使用的语言如何表征WIOA的第二章（《成人教育和家庭扫盲法》），成人教育的目标，合格的成人学习者以及使计划对联邦资金负责的过程。研究结果表明，《标题II》在战术上使美国合法化