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Assembling Comparison

Understanding Education Policy through Mobilities and Assemblage

By Steven Lewis and Rebecca Spratt

Published

Jan 30, 2024

Page count

148 pages

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Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education

ISBN

978-1529231304

Dimensions

203 x 127 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Jan 30, 2024

Page count

148 pages

Browse the series

Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education

ISBN

978-1529231335

Dimensions

203 x 127 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Jan 30, 2024

Page count

148 pages

Browse the series

Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education

ISBN

978-1529231335

Dimensions

203 x 127 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press
Assembling Comparison

This book combines assemblage theory and policy mobilities to inform the study of comparative and international education (CIE), focusing on education policy and how such policy moves are enacted.

These approaches challenge taken-for granted and universalizing concepts in policy research and policy work in CIE – such as the nation-state, policy making/policy enactment, global/local, Global North/Global South – and highlight how policy is contingent on emerging through complex relations between people and places.

Using illustrative cases drawn from research and practice in CIE and education development, the book demonstrates how these ideas can be used in the analysis of policy and the application of this approach in real life.

“Makes an indispensable contribution to contemporary debates in comparative and international education by creatively engaging with key lines of theoretical development to bring forth new visions and possibilities for the field.” Sam Sellar, University of South Australia

Steven Lewis is Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University

Rebecca Spratt is a PhD candidate in Education at the Australian Catholic University and an independent consultant.

1. Why Policy, Why Comparison?

2. Policy Mobilities and Assemblage Theory: Key Concepts

3. Policy Mobilities and Assemblage Theory: A Conjoined Approach

4. Where (and When) Is Policy?

5. What Is Policy?

6. Why Is Policy?

7. How to Research Policy?

8. (Re)assembling Comparison