Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis

1. Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis
Michelle D. Young, Sarah Diem

2. Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education
Michelle D. Young, Amy Luelle Reynolds

3. A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies
Sarah Diem

4. Public Educational Policy as Performance: A Queer Analysis
Michael P. O’Malley, Tanya A. Long

5. The Politics of Student Voice: Conceptualizing a Model for Critical Analysis
Anjalé D. Welton, Tiffany O. Harris, Karla Altamirano, Tierra Williams

6. When Parents Behave Badly: A Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Involvement in Schools
Erica Fernández, Gerardo R. López

7. A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of Patriarchy in Leadership
Catherine Marshall, Mark Johnson, Torrie Edwards

Part II. Emphasis on Theory

8. Silent Covenants in the Neoliberal Era: Critical Race Counternarratives on African American Advocacy Leadership in Schools
Chandra Gill, LaTasha L. Cain Nesbitt, Laurence Parker

9. Policy Enactments and Critical Policy Analysis: How Institutional Talk Constructs Administrative Logics, Marginalization, and Agency
Rodney S. Whiteman, Brendan D. Maxcy, Erica Fernández, Samantha M. Paredes Scribner

10. Ontario’s Fourth ‘R’: A Critical Democratic Analysis of Ontario’s Fund-‘R’aising Policy
Michelle Milani, Sue Winton

11. Examining the Theater of “Listening” & “Learning”
Bradley W. Carpenter

12. Utilizing Michel De Certeau in Critical Policy Analysis
Curtis A. Brewer, Amanda Bell Werts

13. Policy Studies Debt: A Feminist Call to Expand Policy Studies Theory
Wanda S. Pillow

Keywords: Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Educational Philosophy, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Curriculum Studies