Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research - The Practice of Methods

This unique book examines how researchers make scientific knowledge on education policy in practice and how we 'practise method' in the out of reach spaces of education policy and governance.

List of contents

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)
Camilla Addey and Nelli Piattoeva


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


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


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


5. Opening the black box of peer review
Radhika Gorur


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

Helene Ratner
Not the last word (an afterword)
Jenny Ozga

About the author

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.

Summary

This unique book examines how researchers make scientific knowledge on education policy in practice and how we ‘practise method’ in the out of reach spaces of education policy and governance.

Product details

• Authors: Camilla (Autonomous University of Barcelona Addey
• Assisted by: Camilla Addey (Editor), Addey Camilla (Editor), Nelli Piattoeva (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367642402
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64240-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher