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Assembling comparison : understanding education policy through mobilities and assemblage / Steven Lewis and Rebecca Spratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Steven, author.
- Spratt, Rebecca, author.
- Series:
- Bristol studies in comparative and international education.
- Bristol studies in comparative and international education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 134 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book combines assemblage theory and policy mobilities to inform the study of comparative and international education (CIE), focusing on education policy and how such policy moves are enacted.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series page
- Assembling Comparison: Understanding Education Policy through Mobilities and Assemblage
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Series Editor Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- one Why Policy, Why Comparison?
- Why policy mobilities and assemblage theory?
- A worked example: Pacific Regional Education Policy
- Overview of PREP
- Why us?
- Outline of the book
- two Policy Mobilities and Assemblage Theory: Key Concepts
- Explaining policy mobilities
- Policy mobilities: A (very) brief introduction
- Theoretical implications of PM
- Methodological implications of PM
- Explaining assemblage theory
- Assemblage theory: A (very) brief introduction
- Situating AT
- An ontology of difference, becoming and desire
- Stratification, territorialization and the abstract machine
- A summary of AT
- three Policy Mobilities and Assemblage Theory: A Conjoined Approach
- How PM and AT each contributes to PMAT
- The key features of PMAT
- Orientation for Thinking #1: Space is produced through relations
- Orientation for Thinking #2: PMAT disrupts the ontology of policy
- Orientation for Thinking #3: PMAT considers desire as primary
- Orientation for Thinking #4: PMAT is methodologically concerned with 'in the middle'
- Some finer points on the language of PMAT
- PMAT: From orientations for thinking to doing policy research
- four Where (and When) Is Policy?
- How do particular associations of content and expression of a policy assemblage produce space(s) and time(s)?
- How space(s) and time(s) produce policy
- How does this differ over time and space?
- How are space(s) and time(s) connected together (or not connected, or opposed) via policy?
- five What Is Policy?.
- The problems that the policy assemblage opens up and (re)produces
- What arrangement of content and expression are made to matter?
- What connections does the policy assemblage form with other assemblages?
- six Why Is Policy?
- How does policy make certain things un/desirable?
- How are divergent desires made consistent through policy?
- When does a policy assemblage no longer work?
- seven How to Research Policy?
- What delimits the policy assemblage?
- Which dimensions of the policy assemblage are brought into focus, and why?
- What is the role and positionality of the researcher?
- eight (Re)Assembling Comparison
- Notes
- five What Is Policy?
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781529231359
- 1529231353
- 9781529231335
- 1529231337
- 9781529231342
- 1529231345
- OCLC:
- 1417742233
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