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Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis

Moving Beyond Tradition

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Michelle D. Young

    1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

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  2. Sarah Diem

    1. Dept. of Educ. Lead'ship & Pol. Analysis, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

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  • Diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to critical policy analysis in educational policy and educational leadership
  • Insights into the use of critical theoretical perspectives in policy scholarship
  • A comprehensive approach to critical educational policy with a focus on contemporary issues

Part of the book series: Education, Equity, Economy (EEEC, volume 4)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis

    • Michelle D. Young, Sarah Diem
    Pages 1-13

  3. Emphasis on Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-17
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    2. Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education

      • Michelle D. Young, Amy Luelle Reynolds
      Pages 19-41

    3. A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies

      • Sarah Diem
      Pages 43-62

    4. Public Educational Policy as Performance: A Queer Analysis

      • Michael P. O’Malley, Tanya A. Long
      Pages 63-81

    5. The Politics of Student Voice: Conceptualizing a Model for Critical Analysis

      • Anjalé D. Welton, Tiffany O. Harris, Karla Altamirano, Tierra Williams
      Pages 83-109

    6. When Parents Behave Badly: A Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Involvement in Schools

      • Erica Fernández, Gerardo R. López
      Pages 111-129

    7. A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of Patriarchy in Leadership

      • Catherine Marshall, Mark Johnson, Torrie Edwards
      Pages 131-150

  4. Emphasis on Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-153
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    2. Silent Covenants in the Neoliberal Era: Critical Race Counternarratives on African American Advocacy Leadership in Schools

      • Chandra Gill, LaTasha L. Cain Nesbitt, Laurence Parker
      Pages 155-174

    3. Policy Enactments and Critical Policy Analysis: How Institutional Talk Constructs Administrative Logics, Marginalization, and Agency

      • Rodney S. Whiteman, Brendan D. Maxcy, Erica Fernández, Samantha M. Paredes Scribner
      Pages 175-191

    4. Ontario’s Fourth ‘R’: A Critical Democratic Analysis of Ontario’s Fund-‘R’aising Policy

      • Michelle Milani, Sue Winton
      Pages 193-213

    5. Examining the Theater of “Listening” & “Learning”

      • Bradley W. Carpenter
      Pages 215-242

    6. Utilizing Michel De Certeau in Critical Policy Analysis

      • Curtis A. Brewer, Amanda Bell Werts
      Pages 243-260

    7. Policy Studies Debt: A Feminist Call to Expand Policy Studies Theory

      • Wanda S. Pillow
      Pages 261-274

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 275-285
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About this book

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses. It offers insights on which theories are appropriate within the area of critical educational policy research and how theory and method interact and are applied in critical policy analyses. 


Highlighting how different critical theoretical frameworks are used in educational policy research to reshape and redefine the way scholars approach the field, the volume offers work by emerging and senior scholars in the field of educational policy who apply critical frameworks to their research. The chapters examine a wide range of current educational policy topics through different critical theoretical lenses, including critical race theory, critical discourse analysis, postmodernism, feminist poststructuralism, critical theories related to LGBTQ issues, and advocacy approaches.


Reviews

“Young and Diem’s book provides a roadmap for reconstructing and reframing traditional approaches to educational policy analysis.  It should be required reading for any student of educational policy and politics.” (Cindy Gerstl-Pepin, University of Vermont, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    Michelle D. Young

  • Dept. of Educ. Lead'ship & Pol. Analysis, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

    Sarah Diem

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