ABSTRACT

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field.

Bob Lingard has spent the last 30 years researching and writing in universities in Australia, England and Scotland about changing education policy issues. His work is written from a sociological perspective and with a commitment to social justice. He is the co-editor and co-author of 17 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.

In Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education, Bob Lingard provides critical sociological engagement with the politics of education. The focus is education policy and the impact of globalization, including epistemological and methodological issues necessary for researching education policy today. Topics analyzed include:

  • educational restructuring
  • new accountabilities and testing
  • mediatization of education policy
  • policy as numbers
  • the global policy field and policy borrowing
  • pedagogies.

Lingard also considers the nature of educational research today. He has selected 12 of his key writings and in a critical introduction situates and contextualizes the work against key developments in the field and in the changing world.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

Situating politics, policies and pedagogies in Education

chapter Chapter 1|24 pages

Policy as Numbers

Ac/counting for educational research

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

Education Policy as Numbers

Data categories and two Australian cases of misrecognition

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

Policy Borrowing, Policy Learning

Testing times in Australian schooling

chapter Chapter 4|19 pages

It is and It isn't

Vernacular globalization, educational policy, and restructuring

chapter Chapter 5|13 pages

New Scalar Politics

Implications for education policy

chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

Scottish Education

Reflections from an international perspective

chapter Chapter 7|18 pages

Mediatizing Educational Policy

The journalistic field, science policy, and cross-field effects

chapter Chapter 8|14 pages

Deparochializing The Study of Education

Globalization and the research imagination

chapter Chapter 9|15 pages

Researching Education Policy in a Globalized World

Theoretical and methodological considerations

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Getting Boys' Education ‘Right’

The Australian Government's Parliamentary Inquiry Report as an exemplary instance of recuperative masculinity politics

chapter Chapter 11|18 pages

Pedagogies of Indifference