Showing papers by "Thomas S. Popkewitz published in 2000"

Educational Governance and Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Some conceptual difficulties and problematics in policy and research1

Abstract: (2000). Educational Governance and Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Some conceptual difficulties and problematics in policy and research1. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 5-44.

The Denial of Change in Educational Change: Systems of Ideas in the Construction of National Policy and Evaluation:

Abstract: Our conventional assumptions about school policy and evaluation are that schools are known and stable entities, and that the objectives and purposes of evaluation are relatively straight-forward. Drawing initially on a Norwegian evaluation of Norway's educational system, this essay views the problems of policy studies and evaluation as related to social and cultural changes that produce ambiguity and uncertainty in the practices of education. Further, the object of inquiry in this essay is the structuring of educational knowledge. Central to this examination are the sociology of knowledge and postmodern political theories, asking about the categories, distinctions, and differentiations of schooling that govern problem-solving efforts to improve education. My concern is with a method of inquiry that examines the historical circumstances through which "reason" and "reasonable people" of schooling are constructed. I proceed in this manner to frame the study of policy research and evaluation in a problematic ...

Educational Governance and Social Inclusion and Exclusion: A Conceptual Review of Equity and Post-Modern Traditions

Abstract: Educational Governance and Social Inclusion and Exclusion: A Conceptual Review of Equity and Post-Modern Traditions