Analysing Education Policy

Theory and Method
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-40500-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method provides a comprehensive overview of key approaches in critical education policy research. With chapters from internationally recognised and established scholars in the field, this book provides an authoritative account of how different questions may be approached and answered.

Part 1 features chapters focused on text-based approaches to analysis, including critical discourse analysis, thinking with Foucault, Indigenist Policy Analysis, media analysis, the analysis of promotional texts in education, and the analysis of online networks. Part 2 features chapters focused on network ethnography, actor-network theory, materiality in policy, Institutional Ethnography, decolonising approaches to curriculum policy, working with children and young people, and working with education policy elites. These chapters are supported by an introduction to each section, as well as an overall introduction and conclusion chapter from the editors, drawing together key themes and ongoing considerations for the field.

Critical education policy analysis takes many different forms, each of which works with distinctly different questions and fulfils different purposes. This book is the first to clearly map current common and influential approaches to answering these questions, providing important guidance for both new and established researchers.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stacey, Meghan

Mockler, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Meghan Stacey is 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).