Media Discourse on Education Reform in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, 2021-2025

A qualitative corpus of 30 opinion pieces and editorials from leading English-language newspapers in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, published between 2021 and 2025. The dataset was created by researcher Abida Ayesha for a study analyzing representations of education reform and teacher autonomy using appraisal theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. It is available on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze evaluative language patterns based on the application of appraisal theory mentioned in the description.
• Conduct comparative discourse analysis of education reform narratives between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
• Study media constructions of teacher autonomy based on the described focus of the research.
• Train or fine-tune NLP models for sentiment or stance detection in educational policy texts.

Strengths

• Applies a defined integrated analytical framework combining appraisal theory and Critical Discourse Analysis.
• Focuses on a specific time range (2021-2025) and two distinct national contexts.
• Source material is specified as opinion pieces and editorials from leading English-language newspapers.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 130.4 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely collected through manual or automated gathering of newspaper opinion pieces and editorials.

Time Range

2021 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 18:24:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan