Assembling Comparison

Understanding Education Policy through Mobilities and Assemblage

Steven Lewis, Rebecca Spratt

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781529231304
• eBook ISBN: 9781529231335
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Éducation
• Subtopic: Éducation comparative

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series Editor Preface
• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• One Why Policy, Why Comparison?
• Two Policy Mobilities and Assemblage Theory: Key Concepts
• Three Policy Mobilities and Assemblage Theory: A Conjoined Approach
• Four Where (and When) Is Policy?
• Five What Is Policy?
• Six Why Is Policy?
• Seven How to Research Policy?
• Eight (Re)Assembling Comparison
• Notes
• References
• Index