Journal article
Policy enactment, context and performativity: ontological politics and researching Australian National Partnership policies
Journal of Education Policy, Vol.29(6), pp.826-844
2014
Abstract
Recently, critical policy scholars have used the concepts of enactment, context and performativity as an analytic toolkit to illuminate the complex processes of the policy cycle, in particular, the ways in which a multitude of official education reform policies are taken up, challenged and/or resisted by actors in local, situation-specific practices. This set of theoretical tools are usually deployed to analyse interview data collected from a single school or cluster of schools to draw findings or conclusions about the complex processes of policy enactment. We aim to build on this critical policy studies work by, firstly, highlighting key aspects of these theoretical/methodological constructs, secondly, exploring the performative role of research in the materiality of specific contexts and, thirdly, theorising education policy research in terms of ontological politics. We ground this work in a recent collaborative enquiry research project undertaken in Queensland, Australia. This research project emerged in the Australian policy context of National Partnership Agreement policies which were designed to reform public or government-funded schools servicing low socio-economic communities, in order to improve student learning outcomes, specifically in literacy and numeracy as measured by high-stakes national testing. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
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- Title
- Policy enactment, context and performativity: ontological politics and researching Australian National Partnership policies
- Authors
- Parlo Singh (Author) - Griffith UniversityStephen Heimans (Author) - Griffith UniversityKathryn Glasswell (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Journal of Education Policy, Vol.29(6), pp.826-844
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.1080/02680939.2014.891763
- ISSN
- 0268-0939
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451298602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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