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  • Innovations in Critical Policy Analysis

    What’s the Problem Represented to Be?

    by Jian Wu, Carol Bacchi, Anne Wilson, John Boswell, Stephen Kelly, Pamela Ugwudike, Amelia Odida, Tomas Mitander, Andreas Öjehag Pettersson, Stephanie Paterson, Lindsay Larios, Lina Rahm, Jörgen Behrendtz, Hanne Marlene Dahl ...
    Public policy is often framed as a response to social problems rather than the cause of them. Carol Bacchi’s influential ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach – first published in her 2009 book, Analysing Policy – addresses this contrast and has become an essential methodology for post-structural analysis of public policy.This edited volume brings together leading international ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

    Edited by Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, Michael D. Giardina, Gaile S. Cannella ...
    This new edition of the SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Researchrepresents the sixth generation of the ongoing conversation about the discipline, practice, and conduct of qualitative inquiry. As with earlier editions, the Sixth Edition is virtually a new volume, with 27 of the 34 chapters representing new topics or approaches not seen in the previous edition, including intersectionality; critical ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Governing the Present

    Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

    by Nikolas Rose, Peter Miller ...
    The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • The Argumentative Turn Revisited

    Public Policy as Communicative Practice

    Edited by Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis ...
    Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Poststructural Policy Analysis

    A Guide to Practice

    by Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a distinctive approach to policy analysis and a refreshing and politically engaged way of thinking about policy. It clearly articulates a Foucault-influenced poststructural perspective on policy and policy analysis for researchers, students and policy makers. As a "guide to practice", the book introduces a critical analytical approach to policy analysis called ‘What’s the Problem ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Place in Research

    Theory, Methodology, and Methods

    by Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even competing logics at work in these areas of research, some which may indeed be incommensurable. This ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Methodological Dilemma

    Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research

    Edited by Kathleen Gallagher ...
    This thought-provoking book challenges the way research is planned and undertaken and equips researchers with a variety of creative and imaginative solutions to the dilemmas of method and representation that plague qualitative research.Fascinating and inspiring reading for any researcher in the Social Sciences this comprehensive collection encourages the reader to imagine the world in evermore ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

    Edited by Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln ...
    The substantially updated and revised Fifth Edition of this landmark handbook presents the state-of-the-art theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Representing top scholars from around the world, the editors and contributors continue the tradition of synthesizing existing literature, defining the present, and shaping the future of qualitative research. The Fifth Edition contains 19 new ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education

    by Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ‘Reggio approach’, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed consideration for ... Read more

    $76.99 USD