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 center is a commitment to an engaged anthropology of education
policy that uses anthropological knowledge to imagine and foster
more equitable and just forms of schooling. The authors examine the
ways in which education policy processes create, reflect, and
contest regimes of knowledge and power, sorting and stratifying
people, ideas, and resources in particular ways. In contrast to
conventional analyses of policy as text-based, dictated, linear,
and rational, an anthropological perspective positions policy at
the interface of top-down, bottom-up, and meso-level processes, and
as de facto and de jure. Demonstrating how education policy
operates as a social, cultural, and deeply ideological process "on
the ground," each chapter clearly delineates the implications of
these understandings for educational access, opportunity, and
equity. Providing a single "go to" source on the disciplinary
history, theoretical framework, methodology, and empirical
applications of the anthropology of education policy across a range
of education topics, policy debates, and settings, the book updates
and expands on seminal works in the field, carving out an important
niche in anthropological studies of public policy.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
