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Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

Author : P. Taylor Webb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463001425
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Policy, Geophilosophy and Education written by P. Taylor Webb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), decision-making (power), problem-solving (science and methodology), and knowledge (epistemology). Policy, Geophilosophy, and Education reconceptualises the object, and hence, the objectives, of education policy. Specifically, the book illustrates how education policy positions and constitutes objects and subjects through emergent policy arrangements that simultaneously influence how policy is sensed, embodied, and enacted. The book examines the disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to education policy analysis over the last sixty years, and reveals how policy analysis constitutes the ontologies and epistemologies of policy. In order to reconceptualise policy, Policy, Geophilosophy, and Education uses ideas of spatiality, affect and problematization from the disciplines of geography and philosophy. The book problematizes case-vignettes to illustrate the complex and often paradoxical relations between neo-liberal education policy equity, and educational inequalities produced in the representational registers of race and ethnicity.

Education policy and racial biopolitics

Author : Gulson, Kalervo N.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447320085
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Education policy and racial biopolitics written by Gulson, Kalervo N. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula. It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural narratives about the establishment of the school – violence, anti-racism and race-based statistics, policy entrepreneurs, and the re-birth of alternative schools in Toronto - to illustrate how these events ostensibly functioned through neoliberal choice mechanisms and practices. Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics of education in multicultural cities.

Keywords in Education Policy Research

Author : Andrew Wilkins
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447360095
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Keywords in Education Policy Research written by Andrew Wilkins and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of education policy research is a dense, crowded space owing to its complicated relationship to different intellectual histories and the influence of various ontologies or 'turns'. To aid comprehension and clarity, this book describes the history, contribution and application of over 90 keywords in the field of education policy research. It is designed as a reference, learning and teaching tool to assist students, educators and researchers with: - complex learning and teaching; - wider and background reading and knowledge building; - critical scholarship and research; - interdisciplinary thinking and writing; and - theory development and application.

Education Policy and Contemporary Theory

Author : Kalervo N. Gulson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317816838
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Education Policy and Contemporary Theory written by Kalervo N. Gulson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into contemporary critical theories and their take up in education policy studies, the book offers a generative invitation to further reading, thought and exploration. Instead of prescribing how theory should be used, the contributors elaborate on a set of possibilities for researching and critiquing education policy. Education Policy and Contemporary Theory explores examples of how theoretical approaches generate a variety of questions for policy analysis, demonstrating the importance of theory as a necessary and inevitable resource for exploring and contesting various policy realms and dominant discourses. Each chapter provides a short overview of key aspects of a particular theory or perspective, followed by suggestions of methodological implications and recommended readings to extend the outlined ideas. Organized around two parts, the first section focuses on theorists while the second section looks at specific theories and concepts, with the intention that each part makes explicit the connection between theory and methodology in relation to education policy research. Each contribution is carefully written by established and emerging scholars in the field to introduce new scholars to theoretical concepts and policy questions, and to inspire, extend or challenge established policy researchers who may be considering working in new areas.

Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World

Author : Kalervo N. Gulson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315280752
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World written by Kalervo N. Gulson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, post-structural policy analysis in education has evolved, primarily focusing on disrupting dominant narratives about education policy research, development and implementation, and the aims and outcomes of the policy-research nexus. This book originates from an ‘Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World’ workshop held in conjunction with the University of British Columbia and sponsored by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant. The workshop focused on one over-arching question: To what extent can post-structural theories offer innovative policy analyses, and contribute to new forms of policy development and implementation? The chapters in this collection provide responses from the participants of the workshop, and serve as illustrations of the broad range of scholarship that may be identified as post-structural policy analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

Education and the Mobility Turn

Author : Kalervo N Gulson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429684126
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Education and the Mobility Turn written by Kalervo N Gulson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘mobile turn’ in human geography, sociology and cultural studies has resulted in a hitherto unparalleled focus on the critical role that mobility plays in conserving and regenerating society and culture. In this instance, ‘mobility’ refers not just to the physical movement of goods and peoples, ideas and symbols; it can also be analytically applied to the technologies used to facilitate their movement. One such technology is education, which has yet to fall the under the purview of the mobility lens – something that this collection endeavours to redress. Its contributing authors, drawn from Canada, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, explore salient issues relating to education and mobility. These include studies of the career implications for academics of moving across borders; the impact of university study on prison populations; policy mobility and the charter school movement; affect theory and policy development in Canada; educational advertising on Sydney trains and stations; and the employment mobile approaches to track policy development and implementation. One notable feature of the mobility turn is the willingness of its adoptees to explore innovative research methods. Variously demonstrating the efficacy and cogency of autoethnography, affect theory, textual ethnography and human geography for a mobility-empowered education analytics, this collection is no exception. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

Globalisation and Education

Author : Bob Lingard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429875681
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Globalisation and Education written by Bob Lingard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on education policy in the context of globalisation and draws together influential research dealing with the interplay between education policy and globalisation. Globalisation and neo-liberalism in relation to education policy are addressed, as is the impact of the global financial crisis, the recent rise of ethno-nationalism and progressive challenges to neo-liberal hegemony. A number of chapters deal with the new spatialities instantiated by globalisation's new technology, and consider the implications for education policy. Also discussed are global policy actors (such as the OECD, EU and edu-businesses) in education policy; the significance of international large scale assessments to an emergent global policy field; refugees and education; English language policy and globalisation; off-shore schools; and the importance of affect in policy in the context of globalisation. The collection closes with two methodological contributions that consider the implications of globalisation in today’s critical education policy analysis. The collection is brought together in a substantial introduction that traverses the literature and research on globalisation and education policy and also situates the chapters and approaches in the collection within the field. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in various Taylor and Francis journals.

Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education

Author : David R. Cole
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811003122
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education written by David R. Cole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first major production of the globalisation research strand of the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. This book makes a significant contribution to the theory of and research in globalisation and education, and tackles the topics of superdiversity and supercomplexity. The book’s thesis is that the effects of globalisation on education can only be understood if the specific yet complex conditions of globalisation in education are investigated. The book takes an international approach to understanding globalisation and does not restrict itself to just one methodological or theoretical plane of investigation. Education is one of these frontline domains in which the effects of superdiversity cannot be dismissed, minimized or denied. The continuously increasing complexity of learning environments is raising critical issues at every level, from description over analysis to theoretical generalization, and this book is a first and fruitful attempt at charting these waters. This pioneering book will remain a key text for many years to come. Jan Bloomaert Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center Tilburg University, the Netherlands. This provocative collection works from two premises: that today there is superdiversity in our globalised world and related is a supercomplexity of theoretical and methodological approaches. The collection proffers multifarious challenges for educational theory, research and practice in working with, through and across these two premises. As such, Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education is essential reading for all educational researchers, whatever their interests or location. Professor Bob Lingard The University of Queensland, Australia. This is a highly imaginative book that stops ‘flat earth’ and convergence arguments dead in their tracks. Its genius is to bring super-complexity and super-diversity into a conversation with each other and with education, and in doing so shed light on the numerous and unexpected ways in which global processes are shaping education in revealing and compelling ways. Any scholar concerned with globalisation and education will find Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education a’ must have’ on their reading list. Professor Susan Robertson Director of the Centre for Globalisation, Education and Social Futures University of Bristol, UK. This is an absorbing and compelling collection. It takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey through various intricate expressions of the nexus between globalisation and education. And it offers multiple ways that such expressions can be thought and rethought. In transcending conventional categorisations it invites educators to do so too. Professor Jane Kenway, Australian Professorial Fellow – Australian Research Council, Education Faculty, Monash University, Australia.

The Education Assemblage

Author : Greg Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351331183
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Education Assemblage written by Greg Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection works with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and his collaborator Felix Guattari, in the context of education. Deleuze once remarked that we get the philosophy we deserve because of the questions that we ask. Deleuze saw that the work of philosophy was the creation of concepts – those working with his theory are admonished not to follow but to think. For Deleuze, education remained a philosophical problem because it is connected to problems of language, authority, meaning and what it means to learn and think. With that in mind, these contributions were chosen because they apply this ethic to education to think again about what constitutes a problem. In this book, Deleuze’s conceptual contributions such as affect, assemblage, the logic of sense and control society and modulation are put to work to consider various educational problems in educational settings. What brings these contributions together, apart from working with Deleuze, is that they present education as a problem requiring new concepts. Readers are invited into an encounter with Deleuze’s thought because of the situations in which we find ourselves. The chapters in this book were originally published as journal articles by Taylor and Francis journals.

The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

Author : Peter A.J. Stevens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319947249
Total Pages : 1318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education written by Peter A.J. Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited continent on earth and building upon material from the earlier edition, the work analyses educational policies, practices and research on minority students, immigrants and refugees. The editors and contributors explore principal research traditions from countries as diverse as Argentina, China, Norway and South Africa, examining the factors promoting social cohesion as well as considerations regarding the use of international test score data. Seamlessly integrating findings of national reviews, the editors and contributors analyse how national contexts of race/ethnic relations shape the character and content of educational inequalities, and deftly map out new directions for future research in the area. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of education, sociology, race and ethnicity studies and social policy. Chapter 20 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at SpringerLink (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94724-2_20)

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

Author : Pat Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474242901
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools written by Pat Thomson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools are complex institutions. They do not easily reveal themselves to researchers who rely on only one or two methods. Understanding a school, its neighbourhood and its students requires a researcher with a more complex repertoire of verbal, statistical and visual research strategies. Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools shows how multiple methods can be used together to research schools, rather than dealing with decontextualised methods, one by one. Taking a novel theoretical approach to the school as a 'place', the book offers grounded illustrations of schools as places from real case study and ethnographic research conducted in both Australia and the UK. A practical guide, this book explores the on-the-ground questions researchers are likely to face in the order they are likely to face them. The chapters not only look at data generation approaches, but also address analysis of the data and writing about the school, topics that are often ignored. Methods explored for use include those drawn from urban planning and geography to explore neighbourhoods, visual surveys, mapping, classroom observation, ethnographic observation, interviews, focus groups, sociograms and linguistic corpora. Including research tips from the authors, case studies, a glossary and annotated further reading list, this book is essential reading for students and scholars approaching their research project.

Assemblage, Enactment, and Agency

Author : Melody Viczko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315390728
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Assemblage, Enactment, and Agency written by Melody Viczko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assemblage, Enactment, and Agency offers an exploration of the emerging shift in policy research towards the notion of policy enactment, namely, the creative recontextualization and translation of policy ideas into social realities by policy actors in education. Bringing together recent work on the intersections between assemblages, enactments, and agencies in educational policy analysis, the authors call attention to issues of subjectivity, practice, power, and relationality as they offer critical perspectives that challenge linear/instrumentalist views of policy processes. In doing so, they not only interrogate conventional understandings of policy design, implementation, and evaluation, they also recognize the role of agency, interpretation, sense-making, translation, embodiment, and meaning throughout policy processes. They also explore the contested nature of policy, situating educational policies as sites of conflict and negotiation between actors, highlighting the uncertainty, fragility and instability of policy work. By offering a non-linear and heterogeneous account of education policy, the collection furthers contemporary conversations on the nature and goals of education reform. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Tep Vol 30-N2

Author : Teacher Education and Practice
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475837526
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Tep Vol 30-N2 written by Teacher Education and Practice and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 001 – Whither Teacher Education in an Era of the Neoliberal Social Imaginary? Patrick M. Jenlink 002 – Accountability as a Technology of Governmentality: Policy and Disruption on Teaching Practice Denise LaVoie La France 003 – The Master’s Tools: Revealing Doxic Foundations and (Re)Imagining Complexity to Position Future Teachers as Agentic Selves Mary Catherine Breen 004 – Neoliberalism, Critical Pedagogy and Forging the Next Revolution in Teacher Education Peter McLaren 005 – DIALOGUES OF TEACHER EDUCATION SECTION 005a – Jenlink.doc 005b – The Neoliberal Social Imaginary and Teacher Education Rebecca A. Goldstein 05c – Neoliberalism in Teacher Education: The Contradiction and the Dilemma Wayne Au 005d – The Trump Administration and Teacher Education: Thoughts From the First Days Lois Weiner 005e – The Guise of Neoliberal Ideology in Teacher Education Stephen Vassallo 005f – Teacher education and the reductions and restrictions of the neoliberal turn David Hall 005g – Eulogy for Democratic Teacher Education P. Taylor Webb 005h – Dismantling Public Schools: Reflections Against Neoliberal Education Policy Nathalia Jaramillo 005i – Neoliberalism and the Preparation of Bilingual Education Teachers Michael D. Guerrero 005j – Neoliberalism, Democracy, and the Question of Whose Knowledge to Teach Christine Sleeter 005k – Challenges and Possibilities of Teacher Education in Portugal in Neoliberal Times Maria Alfredo Moreira 005l – Making the Inherently Inefficient (More) Efficient: Neoliberalism as “Aim” in Teacher Education Zachary A. Casey 005m– Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Teacher Education Susan L. Robertson 005n – The Impact of Neoliberalism on Teacher Education: Some Reflections from Russia Ilghiz M. Sinagatillin 005o – Teaching Beyond Training: Breaking Paths Toward Justice Julie Gorlewski 005p – The MEMORANDUM Neill F. Armstrong 005q – Classroom Ready Teachers? Some Reflections on Teacher Education in Australia in an Age of Compliance Nicole Mockler 005r – Neoliberalism, Teacher Education, and Restricted Teacher Professionalism Lawrence Angus 005s – Teacher Education and the Renewal of Our Common World Anne Hales 005t – Troubled, Tired, but Fighting Back: Neoliberalism in Teacher Education Steve Grineski 006 – BOOK REVIEW: College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students Jeffrey Chua Call for Book Reviews Upcoming Issues and Call for Reviewers

The Edge of Race

Author : Kalervo N. Gulson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317281071
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Race written by Kalervo N. Gulson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase ‘the edge of race’ can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns.?The first of these is that while race is increasingly on the periphery of education policy – with a growing disregard shown for racist inequities, as education systems become dominated by market-driven concerns – it is important that we map the shifting relations of race in neoliberal politics and policies. The second concern is that at this time, within and outside the spaces of the academy, even to mention race equity is to risk condemnation, marginalization, and ridicule. The authors in this collection use ‘the edge of race’ as a provocation in order to examine the concepts, methodologies, policies, politics, processes, and practices associated with race and racism in education. The chapters offer empirical examples of the perpetuation and perniciousness of racism that point to the continued salience of research about race. Additionally, the chapters make contributions to conceptual and methodological understandings of race and racism. The contributors illustrate the contingency, productivity, and fragility of race as a concept, and point to how educational research continues to be a contested site in, and from which to study, race and education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia

Author : Ravinder K. Sidhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030278565
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia written by Ravinder K. Sidhu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build ‘knowledge economies’ and ‘world-class’ profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights into the relations between emotions, nation and subjectivity. The book challenges Eurocentric views of Asia as a space of volatile nationalist rivalries. By offering richly textured portraits of mobile students, it questions contemporary memes about the utility-maximising Asian learner. This is a thought-provoking text that will appeal to university researchers, academics and students interested in the changing architectures of international education.

Deterritorializing/Reterritorializing

Author : Nancy Ares
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463009779
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Deterritorializing/Reterritorializing written by Nancy Ares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features scholars who use a critical geography framework to analyze how constructions of social space shape education reform. In particular, they situate their work in present-day neoliberal policies that are pushing responsibility for economic and social welfare, as well as education policy and practice, out of federal and into more local entities. States, cities, and school boards are being given more responsibility and power in determining curriculum content and standards, accompanied by increasing privatization of public education through the rise of charter schools and for-profit organizations’ incursion into managing schools. Given these pressures, critical geography’s unique approach to spatial constructions of schools is crucially important. Reterritorialization and deterritorialization, or the varying flows of people and capital across space and time, are highlighted to understand spatial forces operating on such things as schools, communities, people, and culture. Authors from multiple fields of study contribute to this book’s examination of how social, political, and historical dimensions of spatial forces, especially racial/ethnic and other markers of difference, shape are shaped by processes and outcomes of school reform.

Policy and Inequality in Education

Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811040397
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Policy and Inequality in Education written by Stephen Parker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy solutions for inequalities but also how education policy frames, creates and at times exacerbates social inequalities. It adopts a critical stance, encompassing innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual studies – drawing on e.g. sociology, cultural studies, social and cultural geography, and history – as well as original empirical work that examines a range of educational contexts, including early years education, vocational and further education, informal education, K-12 schooling and higher education. The book argues that critique and policy studies can have a transformative function, positing new dimensions for understanding the role of education policy in connection with recurrent social problems and seeking the amelioration of social inequality in ways that challenge the possibility of equity in the liberal democratic state, as well as in other forms of governance and government.