Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis, 1st ed. 2017 Moving Beyond Tradition Education, Equity, Economy Series, Vol. 4

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses. It offers insights on which theories are appropriate within the area of critical educational policy research and how theory and method interact and are applied in critical policy analyses. 

Highlighting how different critical theoretical frameworks are used in educational policy research to reshape and redefine the way scholars approach the field, the volume offers work by emerging and senior scholars in the field of educational policy who apply critical frameworks to their research. The chapters examine a wide range of current educational policy topics through different critical theoretical lenses, including critical race theory, critical discourse analysis, postmodernism, feminist poststructuralism, critical theories related to LGBTQ issues, and advocacy approaches.

Foreword by Jay D. Scribner.- Preface by Sarah Diem & Michelle D. Young.- Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis by Michelle D. Young & Sarah Diem.- Part I: Emphasis on Methods.- Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education by Michelle D. Young & Amy Luelle Reynolds.- A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies by Sarah Diem.- Public Educational Policy as Performance:  A Queer Analysis by Michael P. O’Malley & Tanya A. Long.- The Politics of Student Voice:  Conceptualizing a Model for Critical Analysis by Anjalé D. Welton, Tiffany O. Harris, Karla Altamirano, & Tierra Williams.- When Parents Behave Badly:  A Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Involvement in Schools by Erica Fernández & Gerardo R. López.- A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of Patriarchy in Leadership by Catherine Marshall, Mark Johnson, & Torrie Edwards.- Part II: Emphasis on Theory.- Silent Covenants in the Neoliberal Era: Critical Race Counter-Narratives on African American Advocacy in Schools by Chandra Gill, LaTosha Cain Nesbitt, & Laurence J. Parker.- Policy Enactments and Critical Policy Analysis: How Institutional Talk Constructs Administrative Logics, Marginalization, and Agency by Rodney S. Whiteman, Brendan D. Maxcy, & Samantha M. Paredes Scribner.- Ontario’s Fourth ‘R’:  A Critical Democratic Analysis of Ontario’s Fund-‘R’aising Policy by Michelle Milani & Sue Winton.- Examining the Theater of “Listening” & “Learning” by Bradley W. Carpenter.- Utilizing Michel de Certeau in Critical Policy Analysis by Curtis Brewer & Amanda Werts.- Policy Studies Debt: A Feminist Call to Expand Policy Studies Theory by Wanda S. Pillow.- Afterword by Jill Blackmore