Table Of ContentPolitics, Policies and
Pedagogies in Education
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Bob Lingard has spent the last 30 years researching and writing in universities in
Australia, England and Scotland about changing education policy issues. His work is
written from a sociological perspective and with a commitment to social justice. He is the
co- editor and co-a uthor of 17 books and more than 100 journal articles and book
chapters.
In Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education , Bob Lingard provides critical socio-
logical engagement with the politics of education. The focus is education policy and the
impact of globalization, including epistemological and methodological issues necessary
for researching education policy today. Topics analysed include:
• educational restructuring
• new accountabilities and testing
• mediatization of education policy
• policy as numbers
• the global policy fi eld and policy borrowing
• pedagogies.
Bob Lingard also considers the nature of educational research today. He has selected 11
of his key writings and in a critical introduction situates and contextualizes the work
against key developments in the field and in the changing world.
Bob Lingard is Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education and Institute
for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland, Australia.
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Politics, Policies and
Pedagogies in Education
The selected works of Bob Lingard
Bob Lingard
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Politics, policies and pedagogies in education : the selected works
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1. Education and state. 2. Education and globalization. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction: Situating politics, polices and pedagogies in education 1
Defi ning education(al) research 3
The necessity of theory and the necessity of the empirical 5
The usefulness of Bourdieu’s thinking tools 7
Policy research in education: considering research/policy
relationships 10
The focus of my work 14
Selection principles 20
In/conclusion 21
1 Policy as numbers: Ac/counting for educational research 27
Introduction 27
Excursus 28
Politics of/as numbers 29
The contemporary ‘structure of feeling’: the contexts of the rise of
policy as, by and through numbers 34
The government to governance move in education policy 36
The national schooling agenda in Australia 39
Effects of policy as numbers 41
Conclusion: some implications for education(al) research 45
2 Education policy as numbers: Data categories and two
Australian cases of misrecognition 51
Introduction 51
Contextualizing the analysis 52
Numbers as a technology of governance and the category of
LBOTE: misrecognition 1 54
The politics and numbers behind ‘closing the gap’:
misrecognition 2 59
Concluding comment 64
