Explorations in policy enactment : Feminist thought experiments with Basil Bernstein’s code theory

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Singh, Parlo, Pini, Barbara and Glasswell, Kathryn. (2018). Explorations in policy enactment : Feminist thought experiments with Basil Bernstein’s code theory. Gender and Education. 30(4), pp. 417-434. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1216523
AuthorsSingh, Parlo, Pini, Barbara and Glasswell, Kathryn
Abstract

This paper builds on feminist elaborations of Bernstein’s code theory to engage in a series of thought experiments with interview data produced during a co-inquiry design-based research intervention project. It presents three accounts of thinking/writing with data. Our purpose in presenting three different accounts of interview data is to demonstrate the relation between theory and empirical data. In the first two accounts, interview data are interpreted and performed through the lens of theory. By contrast, in the third account attention is paid to the ways in which care is practised not only in terms of policy enactment, but also research enactment. Empirical data are not moulded to fit generalisable theoretical frameworks. Rather, empirical data push back on theoretical concepts in a collaborative thought experiment.

Keywordspolicy enactment; recontextualising policy; performativity; feminist code theory; bernsteinian sociology
Year2018
JournalGender and Education
Journal citation30 (4), pp. 417-434
PublisherRoutledge
ISSN0954-0253
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1216523
Scopus EID2-s2.0-84980325745
Page range417-434
FunderAustralian Research Council (ARC)
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Output statusPublished
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Online03 Aug 2016
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Accepted16 Jul 2016
Deposited18 Jul 2023
Grant IDLP0990585
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