Research encounters on the move : Reflecting on policy mobilities and researcher positionality in education policy research
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Lewis, Steven. (2022). Research encounters on the move : Reflecting on policy mobilities and researcher positionality in education policy research. In In Addey, Camila and Piattoeva, Nelli (Ed.). Intimate accounts of education policy research : The practice of methods pp. 153-168 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003123613-11
Authors | Lewis, Steven |
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Editors | Addey, Camila and Piattoeva, Nelli |
Abstract | This chapter reflects on emergent conceptual tools, methods and mindsets associated with policy mobilities to discuss how these insights help inform my understanding and practise of policy sociology in education. I hope to reveal the messiness associated with policy mobilities and make explicit the onto-epistemic implications of enacting such a methodology. Adopting a mobilities-informed policy sociology has provided me with new opportunities and spaces for research encounters (e.g. in-person observations, digitally-mediated interviews, social media searches, etc.), but it also raises numerous questions about how I can meaningfully and reflexively inhabit the social spaces through which policies move and mutate. The chapter deals with how I negotiated my own role and positionality as a researcher who employs ‘mobile methods’ to move within diverse policy networks and virtual spaces. Informed by my own experiences, I offer what can come from critical policy research that accounts for, and even embraces, the realpolitik of policymaking, movement and enactment. |
Page range | 153-168 |
Year | 2022 |
Book title | Intimate accounts of education policy research : The practice of methods |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | London, United Kingdom |
New York, NY | |
Series | Routledge research in education policy and politics |
ISBN | 9780367642280 |
9780367642402 | |
9781003123613 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003123613-11 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
2021 | |
Online | 30 Sep 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 11 Jan 2022 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8x438/research-encounters-on-the-move-reflecting-on-policy-mobilities-and-researcher-positionality-in-education-policy-research
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