1st Edition

Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education The selected works of Bob Lingard

By Bob Lingard Copyright 2014
    248 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field.

    Bob Lingard has spent the last 30 years researching and writing in universities in Australia, England and Scotland about changing education policy issues. His work is written from a sociological perspective and with a commitment to social justice. He is the co-editor and co-author of 17 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.

    In Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education, Bob Lingard provides critical sociological engagement with the politics of education. The focus is education policy and the impact of globalization, including epistemological and methodological issues necessary for researching education policy today. Topics analyzed include:

    • educational restructuring
    • new accountabilities and testing
    • mediatization of education policy
    • policy as numbers
    • the global policy field and policy borrowing
    • pedagogies.

    Lingard also considers the nature of educational research today. He has selected 12 of his key writings and in a critical introduction situates and contextualizes the work against key developments in the field and in the changing world.

     Introduction: Situating Politics, polices and pedagogies in education  1. Policy as numbers: Ac/counting for educational research  2. Education policy as numbers: Data categories and two Australian cases of misrecognition  3. Policy borrowing, policy learning: Testing times in Australian schooling  4. It is and it isn't: Vernacular globalization, educational policy, and restructuring  5. New scalar politics: Implications for education policy  6. Scottish Education: Reflections from an international perspective  7. Mediatizing educational policy: the journalistic field, science policy, and cross-field effects  8. Deparochializing the study of education: Globalization and the research imagination!  9. Researching education policy in a globalized world: Theoretical and methodological considerations  10. Getting boys’ education ‘right’: The Australian Government’s Parliamentary Inquiry Report as an exemplary instance of recuperative masculinity politics  11. Pedagogies of indifference

    Biography

    Bob Lingard is Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education and Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland, Australia.