The Anthropology of Education Policy: Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process - Paperback

by Angelina E. Castagno (Editor), Teresa McCarty (Editor)

Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry-the anthropology of policy-this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective, and through this to theorize new ways of understanding how policy "does its work"- how education policy processes create, reflect, and sometimes contest regimes of knowledge and power, sorting and stratifying people, ideas, and resources in particular ways.

Author Biography

Angelina E. Castagno is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in American Indian Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.