The anthropology of education policy : ethnographic inquiries into policy as sociocultural process / edited by Angelina E. Castagno and Teresa L. McCarty.

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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. The book's goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative pe...

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Other Authors: Castagno, Angelina E. (Editor)
McCarty, T. L. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2018.
Subjects:
Education and state > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Educational anthropology > Cross-cultural studies.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Anthropologie et éducation > Études transculturelles.
Education and state > Social aspects.
Educational anthropology.
Bildungspolitik.
Pädagogische Anthropologie.
Sozialanthropologie.
Cross-cultural studies.
Genre:
Cross-cultural studies.
Études transculturelles.
Physical Description:xiv, 255 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Finding the practice in education policy? : a disciplinary genealogy / Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno
  • Theoretical foundations for a critical anthropology of education policy / Bradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton
  • What does an anthropologist of educational policy do? : methodological considerations / Edmund T. Hamann and Thiru Vandeyar
  • Producing policy prescriptions in a "persistently low-achieving" school / Jill Koyama
  • Studying educational policy through its dissenters : the anthropology of U.S. educational policy contestation / Jen Sandler
  • The ambiguous political power of liberal school reform / Amanda Lashaw
  • The (in)flexibility of racial policies : Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South / Stacey J. Lee
  • DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. higher education : toward a critical race anthropology of education policy / Carol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno
  • Along ghostly grains : toward an ethnography of policy / Sabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum Hernández
  • "Safe" versus "dangerous" policy processes in urban public schooling : the case of Native American education in Arizona / Cynthia Benally
  • Policy practices and state effects : a comparative analysis of social inequality, language diversity, and education policy in South Africa and the United States / James Collins
  • Language sequestration and public education : a view from the new language policy studies / Teresa L. McCarty.