This book draws on the work of three experienced ethnographers who
have studied the effects of education policy on teachers' work in
the United Kingdom and Sweden. The book traces some of the issues
and experiences in the development of ethnographic projects
examining policy developments-from planning, through analysis and
writing, to outcomes as methodological articles. Ethnographic
research into teachers' work seeks to understand educational and
social change. As in other European countries, the UK education
system has undergone massive restructuring since the late 1970s,
with proliferating neo-liberal modes of regulation. Policy has had
teachers as its focus for change, recently redefining and reworking
teachers and teaching. There is a crucial role for an ethnographic
case study approach to complement analyses of official educational
policy. In general, the experiences, perspectives and emotions of
the actors who implement policy, and the social, cultural,
political, economic and emotional contexts in which they do so has
been neglected. The ethnographic method is well placed to study
these areas of social life since it investigates the perspectives
and behaviours of people within, in this case, education cultures.
It charts the daily lived experience and impact of policy on
educational subjects. Geoff Troman, Reader in Education Policy,
Froebel College, School of Education, Roehampton University. Bob
Jeffrey, Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Language
Studies, Open University. Dennis Beach, Professor, Institute of
Education, University College Boras.
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