Ethnography and Education Policy [electronic resource] : A Critical Analysis of Normalcy and Difference in Schools /
Matus, Claudia.editor.
This book addresses the relationship between the production of social problems in educational policy, the research practices required to inform policy, and the daily production of normalcies and differences in school contexts. It reports on the opportunities and consequences for policy, research, and practice when normalcy is stigmatized at the same level as difference. The book employs a critical analysis combining queer, feminist, and post-representational theories to understand the implications of dominant ways of understanding the division between normal and different subjectivities and how they reiterate structures of inequality in schools.
1 Introduction: Schools are being produced right now -- 2 Shot and Fragment: The place of researchers in Ethnography -- 3 Queering habits and entanglements of the Normal and Deviant subjectivities in Ethnographies -- 4 Discomfort: Affects, actors, and objects in Ethnographic intervention -- 5 The production of the problem of difference in neoliberal educational policies -- 6 Normalcy and Deviance: The production of schools and their subjects -- 7 Diversity and the failure of the civilizing project -- 8 Unpredictable meanings -- 9 Disentanglements -- 10 Future thoughts.
This book addresses the relationship between the production of social problems in educational policy, the research practices required to inform policy, and the daily production of normalcies and differences in school contexts. It reports on the opportunities and consequences for policy, research, and practice when normalcy is stigmatized at the same level as difference. The book employs a critical analysis combining queer, feminist, and post-representational theories to understand the implications of dominant ways of understanding the division between normal and different subjectivities and how they reiterate structures of inequality in schools.
Education and state.
Education-Research.
Schools.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education Policy.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Research Methods in Education.
Schools and Schooling.