Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education
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- ISBN 9780367702717
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education provides a broad overview of educational policy and politics from critical perspectives engaging with both foundational and cutting edge topics. In critical perspectives, educational policy debates and programs for reform are about more than narrow questions of efficacy say to raise test scores or for simply more educational inclusion, fairer school spending, or even cultural responsiveness. Rather, policy and reform debates represent contested visions for schools and society by social groups vying for hegemony. Critical approaches to educational policy and politics see schooling and education more broadly as contested terrain in which competing visions for education are imbricated with the material and symbolic interests and cultural ideologies of different classes and cultural groups.
Chapters in this volume are organized into five sections. The first three sections provide a foundational overview to educational policy and politics, covering culture and politics of education, political economy of education, and subjectivity and education. These chapters address longstanding and current policy and political debates as well as foundational theoretical debates. The last two sections are organized around two themes that address some of the most significant recent directions of educational politics and policy: disaster politics and technology.
Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. His authored books include The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022), The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2018), and Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education (Routledge, 2016).
Nicole Nguyen is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
