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Doing education policy enactment research in a minor key
Heimans, Stephen Singh, Parlo Glasswell, Kathryn
Heimans, Stephen
Singh, Parlo
Glasswell, Kathryn
Abstract
This article discusses ‘minor key research’ and doing this kind of research as ‘response-ability’. We explore the possibilities that education policy enactment research might hold for theorising and doing research, not just for work on ‘how schools do policy’, but also for how researchers do policy research with schools. A methodological question is raised here by us with respect to what researchers might ‘do’ in schools and other policy locations (such as when working with bureaucrats or politicians). We also discuss our researcher responsibility with respect to such work, and we have attempted to respond to the questions: ‘Is there an alternative for the current regime of accountability? Are there ways to resist and intervene in the current culture of accountability?’ In the first section, we focus on minor key research, and in the second section we discuss doing minor key research as ‘response-ability’.
Keywords
accountability, minor key research, policy enactment, response-ability
Date
2017
Type
Journal article
Journal
Discourse : Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Book
Volume
38
Issue
2
Page Range
185-196
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE)
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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