Analysing education policy : theory and method / edited by Meghan Stacey and Nicole Mockler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stacey, Meghan, editor.

Mockler, Nicole, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Research.

Education and state.

Critical pedagogy--Research.

Critical pedagogy.

Actor-network theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

1 Analysing education policy: an introduction

Part 1 Document and text analysis

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 road map towards recognising Indigenous sovereignty in Indigenous education

6 Media analysis: from the wide angle to the zoom lens

7 Sites of promotion: analysing prospectuses, websites and experiential marketing

8 Online networks and education policy sociology

Part 2 Participant analysis

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

Conclusion

17 Analysing education policy: now and into the future

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-84836-2

1-003-84837-0