Analysing Education Policy

ISBN-13: 9781032405001 / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str.

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of key approaches in critical education policy research. With chapters from internationally-recognised and established scholars in the field, it provides an authoritative account of how different questions may be approached and answered. 

Recenzje

“How we theorise and analyse policy is an under-worked and under-written aspect of critical policy studies. This book fills a gap in an accessible and articulate manner and draws on the scholarship of an impressive and diverse set of policy scholars. Working with text and agency to explore how policy is understood and investigated, and posing searching questions about how policy is analysed and researched, this collection will be invaluable to educationalists, researchers and policy-makers, in sharpening current and future studies in the field.”

Meg Maguire, Professor, King’s College London, UK.

“As factors influencing the development and enactment of policy in education become increasingly varied and complex, new approaches to policy research are clearly needed. Drawing on recent developments in social and political theory, this book presents a collection of critical essays that constitutes a most accessible and helpful introduction to the shifting field of educational policy studies.”

Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

 

“...a must-read primer to critical education policy analysis. This rich collection by renowned international experts spans a wide array of theoretical and methodological insights into text-based sources and the roles and experiences of human and non-human actors. Infused with concrete examples and sensitivity towards the variety of analytical approaches in the field, it is a true gift to all of us pursuing responsible, relevant, and robust research on education policy in national and global contexts.”

Nelli Piattoeva, Associate Professor, Tampere University, Finland.

 

“The field of education policy research is a morass of epistemological turns and normative wrangling, making it a difficult space to navigate for students and researchers not familiar with its rich albeit complicated relationship to different intellectual histories and political projects. To aid readers through this muddy terrain and offer essential clarity and comprehension on the various theories and methods available, from network ethnography to visual discourse, problem representation and Foucauldian analytics, Stacey and Mockler bring together a stellar group of researchers to showcase some of the most innovative approaches to education policy research.”

Andrew Wilkins, Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Analysing education policy: An introduction  Part 1  2. Document and text analysis in critical education policy studies  3. Critical Discourse Analysis: Language, ideology and power  4. Thinking with Foucault to understand education policy  5. Indigenist Policy Analysis: The Uluru Statement from the Heart as a roadmap towards recognising Indigenous sovereignty in Indigenous education  6. Media analysis: From the wide angle to the zoom lens  7. Sites of promotion: Analysing websites, prospectuses and experiential marketing  8. Online networks and education policy sociology  Part 2  9. Participant analysis in critical education policy studies  10. Network ethnography in education: A literature review of network ethnography as a methodology and how it has been applied in critical policy studies  11. Actor-Network Theory: A material-semiotic approach to policy analysis  12. The vital materiality of policy  13. Institutional Ethnography: Discovering how education policy organises the everyday work of people  14. Decolonising curriculum policy research through community centredness  15. Beyond surveys and focus groups: Including the views of children and young people in education policy analysis  16. Researching policy elites in education  17. Conclusion: Analysing education policy: Now and into the future

O autorze

Meghan Stacey is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education and Education Policy at the UNSW School of Education, where she takes a particular interest in the critical policy sociology of teachers’ work. Her first book, The business of teaching, was published in 2020 with Palgrave.

 

Nicole Mockler is Professor of Education at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney.  Her research focuses on education policy and politics, particularly as they frame teachers’ work, professional identities and professional learning. Her most recent book is Constructing teacher identities (Bloomsbury, 2022).