Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research: The Practice of Methods

ISBN-13: 9780367642402 / Angielski

Camilla Addey; Nelli Piattoeva

Opis

This unique book examines how researchers make scientific knowledge on education policy in practice and how we ‘practise method’ in the out of reach spaces of education policy and governance.

What do we actually do when we research education policy and governance? Why do we tame the messy hinterland of research into smooth accounts and what do we lose in the process?

In this volume, distinguished scholars in education policy and governance research discuss how the practice of methods is messy, subjective, and provisional. They approach methodology as riddled with tensions, doubts, troubles, and mundane decisions. Scholarship in this book shifts from recording the methodological hinterland to putting it to productive use as resources for thinking about the researched world and about research itself. This methodological openness helps to examine how research reproduces scholars’ metaphysics, how research is a deeply embodied process encompassing all senses, how scholars’ concerns interfere in the worlds they study, but also how these equally interfere with researchers. By challenging smooth methodological accounts which conceal the complex and provisional nature of research, this book offers new approaches in education policy and governance research that are more generative, insightful, and sincere.

Offering new ways of thinking about research methodologies, the book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students in the fields of education research and education theory, as well as social scientists interested in research methodologies more broadly.

Spis treści

Foreword: From After Method to care-ful research

John Law

1. What a mess: intimacies, metaphysics, multiple senses and matters of concern in education policy research (an introduction)

Camilla Addey and Nelli Piattoeva

2. Researching education elites twenty years on: Sex, Lies and… Skype

Sotiria Grek

3. Following European experts as an embedded researcher. Multiple commitments, contingencies, and asymmetries shaping the academic self

Romuald Normand

4. Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research

Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar

5. Opening the black box of peer review

Radhika Gorur

6. Dressed for success? Making an appearance at an educational technology event.

Anna Jobér

7. Anecdotalization: From individual to collective learning through intimate accounts

Marcella Milana

8. A balancing act: the untold practice of network ethnography

Marina Avelar, Anna Hogan, Carolina Junemann and Dimitra Pavlina Nikita

9. Researching unsafe global education policy spaces in Mexico

Rosanne Elisabeth Tromp

10. Unboxing and unraveling in the archive of gender equity policy

Susanne Gannon and Kerry Robinson

11. Research encounters on the move: Reflecting on policy mobilities and researcher positionality in policy sociology in education

Steven Lewis

12. Disentangling fast school policy at a slow pace

Samira Alirezabeigi, Jan Masschelein and Mathias Decuypere

13. Encountering sociological theory in the field - a post-reflexive approach

Helene Ratner

Not the last word (an afterword)

Jenny Ozga

O autorze

Camilla Addey is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Globalisation, Education and Social Policies research centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Nelli Piattoeva is an Associate Professor at Tampere University, Finland.