Description
Book SynopsisWhat do we actually do when we research education policy and governance? Why do we tame the messy hinterland of research into smooth accounts and what do we lose in the process?
In this volume, distinguished scholars in education policy and governance research discuss how the practice of methods is messy, subjective, and provisional. They approach methodology as riddled with tensions, doubts, troubles, and mundane decisions. Scholarship in this book shifts from recording the methodological hinterland to putting it to productive use as resources for thinking about the researched world and about research itself. This methodological openness helps to examine how research reproduces scholars' metaphysics, how research is a deeply embodied process encompassing all senses, how scholars' concerns interfere in the worlds they study, but also how these equally interfere with researchers. By challenging smooth methodological accounts which conceal the complex and provisional natu
Table of Contents
Foreword: From After Method to care-ful research
John Law
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- What a mess: intimacies, metaphysics, multiple senses and matters of concern in education policy research (an introduction)
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Camilla Addey and Nelli Piattoeva
- Researching education elites twenty years on: Sex, Lies and… Skype
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Sotiria Grek
- Following European experts as an embedded researcher. Multiple commitments, contingencies, and asymmetries shaping the academic self
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Romuald Normand
- Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research
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Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar
- Opening the black box of peer review
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Radhika Gorur
- Dressed for success? Making an appearance at an educational technology event.
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Anna Jobér
- Anecdotalization: From individual to collective learning through intimate accounts
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Marcella Milana
- A balancing act: the untold practice of network ethnography
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Marina Avelar, Anna Hogan, Carolina Junemann and Dimitra Pavlina Nikita
- Researching unsafe global education policy spaces in Mexico
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Rosanne Elisabeth Tromp
- Unboxing and unraveling in the archive of gender equity policy
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Susanne Gannon and Kerry Robinson
- Research encounters on the move: Reflecting on policy mobilities and researcher positionality in policy sociology in education
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Steven Lewis
- Disentangling fast school policy at a slow pace
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Samira Alirezabeigi, Jan Masschelein and Mathias Decuypere
- Encountering sociological theory in the field - a post-reflexive approach
Helene Ratner
Not the last word (an afterword)
Jenny Ozga
