Researching policy elites in education
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Al’Abri, Khalaf, Hogan, Anna, Lingard, Robert Leslie and Sellar, Sam. (2024). Researching policy elites in education. In In Stacey, Meghan and Mockler, Nicole (Ed.). Analysing Education Policy : Theory and Method pp. 235 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-19
Authors | Al’Abri, Khalaf, Hogan, Anna, Lingard, Robert Leslie and Sellar, Sam |
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Editors | Stacey, Meghan and Mockler, Nicole |
Abstract | This chapter examines methodological issues associated with interviewing policy elites. There is limited literature in the field of policy sociology in education that engages with the issue of researching policy elites, yet research in this field often involves conducting interviews with officials and senior staff in government and other organisations, including education businesses. These interviews are a socially complex phenomenon in terms of researcher positionality, recruiting and assessing participants, conducting interviews, and analysing and representing interview data. This chapter proffers a comparative analysis of interview research undertaken with policy elites across three cases (government, an international organisation and a multinational edu-business) to highlight common and distinct concerns, challenges and issues. We argue for the necessity to seriously consider interview data, as well as interview processes, as important analytical resources in the development of defensible accounts of education policy development and contexts and the role of policy elites in this work. We advocate for researchers to reject epistemological innocence and to be reflexive in their analyses and representations of interview data. |
Keywords | education policy ; policy sociology; elites; senior staff; policy development; research interviews |
Page range | 235 |
249 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Book title | Analysing Education Policy : Theory and Method |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN | 9781003353379 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-19 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003353379-19/researching-policy-elites-education-khalaf-al-abri-anna-hogan-bob-lingard-sam-sellar |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 13 Feb 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 02 Oct 2024 |
Additional information | © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Meghan Stacey and Nicole Mockler; individual chapters, the contributors |
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license. Funded by University of Sydney Library. |
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