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Policy mobilities and methodology: A proposition for inventive methods in education policy studies
Gulson, Kalervo N. Lewis, Steven Lingard, Bob Lubienski, Christopher Takayama, Keita Webb, P. Taylor
Gulson, Kalervo N.
Lewis, Steven
Lingard, Bob
Lubienski, Christopher
Takayama, Keita
Webb, P. Taylor
Abstract
The argument of this paper is that new methodologies associated with the emerging field of ‘policy mobilities’ can be applied, and are in fact required, to examine and research the networked and relational, or ‘topological’, nature of globalised education policy, which cuts across the new spaces of policymaking and new modes of global educational governance. In this paper, we examine the methodological issues pertaining to the study of the movement of policy. Informed by contemporary methodological thinking around social network analysis and the ethnographic notion of ‘following the policy’, we discuss the limitations of these approaches to adequately address presence in policy network analysis, and the problem of representing speed and intensity of policy mobility, even while these attempt to solve the problem of relationality and territoriality. We conclude that the methodologies of policy mobility are inexorably intertwined with the (constantly) changing phenomena under examination, and hence require what Lury and Wakeford describe as ‘inventive methods’.
Keywords
Education policy, ethnography, mobility, network analysis, relationality
Date
2017
Type
Journal article
Journal
Critical Studies in Education
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Volume
58
Issue
2
Page Range
224-241
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ACU Department
Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE)
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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