The Anthropology of Education Policy

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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.

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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.

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Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquirythe anthropology of policythis 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." At the center is a commitment to an engaged anthropology of education policy that uses anthropological knowledge to imagine and foster more equitable and just forms of schooling. The authors examine the ways in which education policy processes create, reflect, and contest regimes of knowledge and power, sorting and stratifying people, ideas, and resources in particular ways.

In contrast to conventional analyses of policy as text-based, dictated, linear, and rational, an anthropological perspective positions policy at the interface of top-down, bottom-up, and meso-level processes, and as de facto and de jure. Demonstrating how education policy operates as a social, cultural, and deeply ideological process "on the ground," each chapter clearly delineates the implications of these understandings for educational access, opportunity, and equity.

Providing a single "go to" source on the disciplinary history, theoretical framework, methodology, and empirical applications of the anthropology of education policy across a range of education topics, policy debates, and settings, the book updates and expands on seminal works in the field, carving out an important niche in anthropological studies of public policy.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART 1SITUATING THE FIELD

1. Finding the Practice in Education PolicyA Disciplinary Genealogy Teresa L. McCarty and Angelina E. Castagno

2. Theoretical Foundations for a Critical Anthropology of Education Policy Bradley A. Levinson, Teresa Winstead, and Margaret Sutton

3. What Does an Anthropologist of Educational Policy Do? Methodological Considerations Edmund T. Hamann and Thiru Vandeyar PART 2EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND CONTESTATION IN THE U.S.

4. Producing Policy Prescriptions in a "Persistently Low-Achieving" School Jill Koyama

5. Studying Educational Policy through its Dissenters: The Anthropology of U.S. Educational Policy Contestation Jen Sandler

6. The Ambiguous Political Power of Liberal School Reform Amanda Lashaw PART 3RACED, AND RACING, EDUCATION POLICY

7. The (In)Flexibility of Racial Policies: Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South Stacey J. Lee

8. DREAMers and DACAmented students in U.S. Higher Education: Toward a Critical Race Anthropology of Education Policy Carol E. Johnson and Angelina E. Castagno

9. Along Ghostly Grains: Toward an Ethnography of Policy Sabina E. Vaught and Gabrielle Orum Hernández PART 4LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND EXCLUSIONARY EDUCATION POLICY

10. "Safe" versus "Dangerous" Policy Processes in Urban Public Schooling: The Case of Native American Education in Arizona Cynthia Benally

11. Policy Practices and State Effects: A Comparative Analysis of Social Inequality, Language Diversity, and Education Policy in South Africa and the United States James Collins

12. Language Sequestration and Public Education: A View from the New Language Policy Studies Teresa L. McCarty

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