The anthropology of education policy : ethnographic inquiries into policy as sociocultural process / edited by Angelina E. Castagno and Teresa L. McCarty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castagno, Angelina E., editor.

McCarty, T. L., editor.

Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and state.

Educational anthropology--Cross-cultural studies.

Educational anthropology.

Education and state--Social aspects.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry-the anthropology of policy-this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. The book's goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective, and through this to theorize new ways of understanding how policy "does its work." At the center is a commitment to an engaged anthropology of education policy that uses anthropological knowledge to imagine and foster more equitable and just forms of schooling. The authors examine the ways in which education policy processes create, reflect, and contest regimes of knowledge and power, sorting and stratifying people, ideas, and resources in particular ways. In contrast to conventional analyses of policy as text-based, dictated, linear, and rational, an anthropological perspective positions policy at the interface of top-down, bottom-up, and meso-level processes, and as de facto and de jure. Demonstrating how education policy operates as a social, cultural, and deeply ideological process "on the ground," each chapter clearly delineates the implications of these understandings for educational access, opportunity, and equity. Providing a single "go to" source on the disciplinary history, theoretical framework, methodology, and empirical applications of the anthropology of education policy across a range of education topics, policy debates, and settings, the book updates and expands on seminal works in the field, carving out an important niche in anthropological studies of public policy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Finding the practice in education policy? : a disciplinary genealogy / Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno

Theoretical foundations for a critical anthropology of education policy / Bradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton

What does an anthropologist of educational policy do? : methodological considerations / Edmund T. Hamann and Thiru Vandeyar

Producing policy prescriptions in a "persistently low-achieving" school / Jill Koyama

Studying educational policy through its dissenters : the anthropology of U.S. educational policy contestation / Jen Sandler

The ambiguous political power of liberal school reform / Amanda Lashaw

The (in)flexibility of racial policies : Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South / Stacey J. Lee

DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. higher education : toward a critical race anthropology of education policy / Carol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno

Along ghostly grains : toward an ethnography of policy / Sabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum Hernández

"Safe" versus "dangerous" policy processes in urban public schooling : the case of Native American education in Arizona / Cynthia Benally

Policy practices and state effects : a comparative analysis of social inequality, language diversity, and education policy in South Africa and the United States / James Collins

Language sequestration and public education : a view from the new language policy studies / Teresa L. McCarty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

ISBN:

9781138119635

9781138119628

1138119628

1138119636

OCLC:

979565626

Publisher Number:

99974104958