1st Edition

Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research The Practice of Methods

Edited By Camilla Addey, Nelli Piattoeva Copyright 2022
236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What 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,... Read more

Foreword: From After Method to care-ful research

John Law

  1. What a mess: intimacies, metaphysics, multiple senses and matters of concern in education policy research (an introduction)
  2. Camilla Addey and Nelli Piattoeva

  3. Researching education elites twenty years on: Sex, Lies and… Skype
  4. Sotiria Grek

  5. Following European experts as an embedded researcher. Multiple commitments, contingencies, and asymmetries shaping the academic self
  6. Romuald Normand

  7. Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research
  8. Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar

  9. Opening the black box of peer review
  10. Radhika Gorur

  11. Dressed for success? Making an appearance at an educational technology event.
  12. Anna Jobér

  13. Anecdotalization: From individual to collective learning through intimate accounts
  14. Marcella Milana

  15. A balancing act: the untold practice of network ethnography
  16. Marina Avelar, Anna Hogan, Carolina Junemann and Dimitra Pavlina Nikita

  17. Researching unsafe global education policy spaces in Mexico
  18. Rosanne Elisabeth Tromp

  19. Unboxing and unraveling in the archive of gender equity policy
  20. Susanne Gannon and Kerry Robinson

  21. Research encounters on the move: Reflecting on policy mobilities and researcher positionality in policy sociology in education
  22. Steven Lewis

  23. Disentangling fast school policy at a slow pace
  24. Samira Alirezabeigi, Jan Masschelein and Mathias Decuypere

  25. Encountering sociological theory in the field - a post-reflexive approach

Helene Ratner

Not the last word (an afterword)

Jenny Ozga

Biography

Camilla Addey is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Globalisation, Education and Social Policies research centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Nelli Piattoeva is an Associate Professor at Tampere University, Finland.