Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World

Kalervo N. Gulson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research contributes to, and draws upon, education policy studies, sociology of education, race/ ethnicity, and social and cultural geography. His current research focuses on the relationship between education policy and calculative spaces, and what kind of life is possible within and through these calculative spaces. His recent publications include Education policy, Space and the City: Markets and the (In)visibility of Race (2011), and Policy, Geophilosophy, Education (with T. Webb, 2015).Amy Scott Metcalfe is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her research focuses on research policy in higher education institutions, systems, and individual researchers. Her work explores the internationalization of higher education from a (post)critical, comparative perspective. She is currently developing a methodology for visual research in higher education, building upon visual ethnography, poststructuralism, and the visual arts. She has recently published in Higher Education, the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and the Review of Higher Education.

• Introduction: education policy analysis for a complex world: poststructural possibilities 1. The subject of policy 2. Cultural hierarchies in the discursive representations of China in the Chronicle of Higher Education 3. Michel de Certeau, everyday life and policy cultures: the case of parent engagement in education policy 4. Policy temporality and marked bodies: feminist praxis amongst the ruins 5. ‘Knowledge is power’? A Lacanian entanglement with political ideology in education 6. Contracting race: writing, racism, and education 7. ‘Who are you calling a problem?’: addressing transphobia and homophobia through school policy 8. Assembling, disassembling and reassembling ‘youth services’ in Austerity Britain 9. A feel for numbers: affect, data and education policy 10. What crisis of representation? Challenging the realism of post-structuralist policy research in education 11. Policy scientificity 3.0: theory and policy analysis in-and-for this world and other-worlds