Doing education policy enactment research in a minor key

Title
Doing education policy enactment research in a minor key
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Heimans, Stephen
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4573-9461
Email: sheimans@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sheimans
Singh, Parlo
Glasswell, Kathryn
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/01596306.2015.1074428
UNE publication id
une:21127
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'.
Link
Citation
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38(2), p. 185-196
ISSN
1469-3739
0159-6306
Start page
185
End page
196

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