Full Description
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
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
