Assembling Comparison - Understanding Education Policy Through Mobilities and Assemblage

This book combines assemblage theory and policy mobilities to inform the study of comparative and international education (CIE), focusing on education policy and how such policy moves are enacted. These approaches challenge taken-for granted and universalizing concepts in policy research and policy work in CIE - such as the nation-state, policy making/policy enactment, global/local, Global North/Global South - and highlight how policy is contingent on emerging through complex relations between people and places. Using illustrative cases drawn from research and practice in CIE and education development, the book demonstrates how these ideas can be used in the analysis of policy and the application of this approach in real life.

About the author

Steven Lewis is Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University Rebecca Spratt is a PhD candidate in Education at the Australian Catholic University and an independent consultant.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Lewis, Rebecca Spratt
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9781529231304
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-3130-4
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: Bristol Studies in Comparative
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system