Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis: Moving Beyond Tradition
In: Education, Equity, Economy v.4
In: Education, Equity, Economy Ser. v.4
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis -- 1 Critical Policy Analysis as Critique -- 2 The Basic Elements of Critical Policy Analysis -- 3 Outline of the Book -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part I Emphasis on Methods -- References -- Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why State Boards of Education? -- 3 Critical Policy Analysis: Theory and Method -- 4 Critical Policy Analysis Approaches to the Study of SBOEs -- 4.1 A Critical Historical Analysis of SBOEs -- 4.2 A Critical Feminist Examination of SBOEs -- 4.3 State Boards of Education as Policy Actors -- 5 Implications and Conclusion -- References -- Data Sources -- A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies -- 1 History of School Desegregation -- 2 Framework: Education Policy Implementation -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Findings -- 4.1 Description of the Student Assignment Policies -- 4.1.1 Jefferson County Public Schools Student Assignment Plan -- 4.1.2 Omaha Public Schools Student Assignment Plan -- 4.1.3 Berkeley Unified School District Student Assignment Plan -- 4.2 Cross-Case Findings -- 4.2.1 Process and Design Affect Political Support -- 4.2.2 Plans May Be Undermined by Narrow Accountability Systems -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Public Educational Policy as Performance: A Queer Analysis -- 1 Conceptual Tools: A Queering of Critical Policy Analysis -- 2 Methods -- 3 Data Presentation: A Social Justice Microhistory -- 3.1 Domestic Partner Benefits in Pflugerville -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 Patterned Public Representation of Queer Inclusive Educational Policy as Hetero-Exclusive -- 4.2 Re-stratification of Heteronormative Social Organization Through Disciplinary Mechanisms.