The Anthropology of Education Policy: Ethnograp, Castagno, McCarty Pa PB..

Taylor & Francis

The Anthropology of Education PolicyEthnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process\nAuthor(s): Angelina E. Castagno, Teresa McCarty\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138119635, 978-1138119635\nSynopsis\nAdvancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquirythe anthropology of policythis volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective, and through this to theorize new ways of understanding how policy \""does its work.\"" At the center is a commitment to an engaged anthropology of education policy that uses anthropological knowledge to imagine and foster more equitable and just forms of schooling. The authors examine the ways in which education policy processes create, reflect, and contest regimes of knowledge and power, sorting and strati.