Policy as Practice

MARGARET SUTTON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana UniversityBRADLEY A.U. LEVINSON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University

• Introduction: Policy as/in Practice--Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural Studies Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice: What Kind of Relationships in How (De)Centralized a Context? by Donald K. Adams, Mark B. Ginsburg, Thomas Clayton, Martha E. Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal by Margaret Sutton Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies by Khaula Murtadha-Watts Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala by Martha E. Mantilla When Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy by Susan Street Beyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding by Pamela Anne Quiroz Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy: New Immigrant Education in the Rural Midwest by Sandra L. Cade "That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!": The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community by R.G. Schwab "We Are Mountain": Appalachian Educators' Responses to the Challenge of Systemic Reform by Maureen Porter Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy by Lisa Rosen Index