Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The opening section on theory will survey the conceptual antecedents of qualitative policy studies, citing the relevant literature and laying out an agenda for research. The section on methods will consist of accounts of innovative field experiences and analytic approaches that can illuminate the new field. The final section on experiences will extend the reflections in the methods section with concrete case studies.
Synopsis
Brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and chart the methodological and theoretical paramaters of such a project.
About the Author
MARGARET SUTTON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana UniversityBRADLEY A.U. LEVINSON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University
Table of Contents
Introduction: Policy as/in Practice--A Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy, by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton
Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural Studies
Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea, by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi
Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice: What Kind of Relationships in How (De)Centralized a Context? by Donald K. Adams, Mark B. Ginsburg, Thomas Clayton, Martha E. Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang
Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal, by Margaret Sutton
Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy
Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies, by Khaula Murtadha-Watts
Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala, by Martha E. Mantilla
When Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy, by Susan Street
Beyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding, by Pamela Anne Quiroz
Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment, by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa
Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice
The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy: New Immigrant Education in the Rural Midwest, by Sandra L. Cade
"That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!": The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community, by R.G. Schwab
"We Are Mountain": Appalachian Educators' Responses to the Challenge of Systemic Reform, by Maureen Porter
Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy, by Lisa Rosen
Index