Andrew Wilkins is Reader in Education Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London.Steven J. Courtney is Professor of Sociology of Education Leadership at the University of Manchester.Nelli Piattoeva is Professor of Sociology of Education at Tampere University.

“A brilliant and sophisticated conceptual toolbox of the major discursive themes in critical policy sociology in education. It will be essential reading and importantly will catalyse further reading, thinking and theory development in the field.” Bob Lingard, University of Queensland

• IntroductionKeywordsAActivismActor-Network TheoryAdvocacyAffectAlignmentAnthropologyArchaeologyArtefactAssemblageAttractionAutomationBBorrowingBricolageBrokerCCommunityConsultantContextConvergenceCriticalityCritical discourse analysisCritical race theoryCultural political economyCycleDDecouplingDeliberative policy analysisDeliverologyDialogueDiffusionDigital educationDigital policy sociologyDiscourse analysisDispositifDivergenceDriftEEliteEmbodimentEnactmentEntrepreneurEnvironmental and sustainability policy analysisEpistemologyEventExperimentationExpertiseFFast policyFeminist policy analysisFramingGGenealogyGovernanceGovernmentalityHHistoriographyIImplementationIndigenous policy analysisInfrastructureInstitutional theoryInstrumentIntermediaryInterpretive policy analysisLLeadershipMMediationMediatisationMicro-credentialMobilityMultiple- streams analysisNNarrative policy analysisNeoliberalismNumbersOOntologyPPartnershipPerformativityPolicy ethnographyPolicy field analysisPolicy learningPolicy network analysisPolicy scholarshipPolicy sciencePolicy sociologyPolicy trajectory analysisPolicy workPrivatisationProblematisationQQueer policy analysisRRationalityRegimeRegulationResistanceRhetorical analysisSScaler policy analysisSilenceSocial network analysisSpatial policy analysisTTemporal policy analysisThink tankTopologyTransferTranslationUUnbundlingVVisual methodsWWorld culture theory