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The Anthropology of Education Policy: Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process book cover

1st Edition

The Anthropology of Education Policy Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process

Edited By Angelina E. Castagno, Teresa McCarty Copyright 2018
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge
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Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry—the anthropology of policy—this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective, and through this to theorize new ways of understanding how policy "does its work." At the... Read more

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART 1—SITUATING THE FIELD

  1. Finding the Practice in Education Policy—A Disciplinary Genealogy

    2. Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno

  2. Theoretical Foundations for a Critical Anthropology of Education Policy

    3. Bradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton

  3. What Does an Anthropologist of Educational Policy Do? Methodological Considerations

    4. Edmund T. Hamann and Thiru Vandeyar

    PART 2—EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND CONTESTATION IN THE U.S.

  4. Producing Policy Prescriptions in a "Persistently Low-Achieving" School

    5. Jill Koyama

  5. Studying Educational Policy through its Dissenters: The Anthropology of U.S. Educational Policy Contestation

    6. Jen Sandler

  6. The Ambiguous Political Power of Liberal School Reform

    7. Amanda Lashaw

    PART 3—RACED, AND RACING, EDUCATION POLICY

  7. The (In)Flexibility of Racial Policies: Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South

    8. Stacey J. Lee

  8. DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. Higher Education: Toward a Critical Race Anthropology of Education Policy

    9. Carol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno

  9. Along Ghostly Grains: Toward an Ethnography of Policy

    10. Sabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum Hernández

    PART 4—LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND EXCLUSIONARY EDUCATION POLICY

  10. "Safe" versus "Dangerous" Policy Processes in Urban Public Schooling: The Case of Native American Education in Arizona

    11. Cynthia Benally

  11. Policy Practices and State Effects: A Comparative Analysis of Social Inequality, Language Diversity, and Education Policy in South Africa and the United States

    12. James Collins

  12. Language Sequestration and Public Education: A View from the New Language Policy Studies

Teresa L. McCarty

About the Contributors

Index

Biography

Angelina E. Castagno is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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