ABSTRACT
The Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education provides a broad overview of educational policy and politics from critical perspectives engaging with both foundational and cutting edge topics. In critical perspectives, educational policy debates and programs for reform are about more than narrow questions of efficacy say to raise test scores or for simply more educational inclusion, fairer school spending, or even cultural responsiveness. Rather, policy and reform debates represent contested visions for schools and society by social groups vying for hegemony. Critical approaches to educational policy and politics see schooling and education more broadly as contested terrain in which competing visions for education are imbricated with the material and symbolic interests and cultural ideologies of different classes and cultural groups.
Chapters in this volume are organized into five sections. The first three sections provide a foundational overview to educational policy and politics, covering culture and politics of education, political economy of education, and subjectivity and education. These chapters address longstanding and current policy and political debates as well as foundational theoretical debates. The last two sections are organized around two themes that address some of the most significant recent directions of educational politics and policy: disaster politics and technology.
Introduction: Routledge Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education; CULTURE AND POLITICS OF EDUCATION; 1: The Politics and Cultural Politics of Education; 2: The Centrality of Conscientization in Critical Pedagogy; 3: Democracy after Domination: Imagining Critical Education Beyond Capitalist Futures; 4: Rising Authoritarianism, Populism and the Challenge of Educational Leadership; 5: Critical Research Methodology: A Realist Approach; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATION; 6: Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and Corporate School Reform; 7: The Political Economy of Global Education Policy; 8: "Innovative" Educational Finance: The Role of Financial Capital in Shaping Schooling; 9: The Political Economy of Immigration, Xenophobia, and Educational Language Policy; 10: Beyond the Neoliberal Crisis In Education: Educating For The Common Good; SUBJECTIVITY AND EDUCATION; 11: "That is Who "We" Are": The "Public Secret:" Racial Violence/White Supremacy, Public Policy and Public Education; 12: The Precarious Subject of Neoliberal Education: Resilient Life In The Catastrophic Conjuncture; 13: Building Transformative Justice Communities: Why abolitionist work in schools is, and must always be, feminist; SCHOOLING AND THE POLITICS OF DISASTER; 14: Beyond Pandemic Politics in the Age of Fascist Politics; 15: Contested Terrain: School Militarism and the Battle for Hearts and Minds; 16: Anthropocene, Education, and the Politics of Extinction; TECHNOLOGY; 17: Transforming the Extractive Politics of STEM Education and CTE; 18: EdTech, Market Logics, And Pedagogic Containment: Critical Pedagogies For a Critical Moment; 19: Confronting the Digital Leviathan in Education: On Cybernetic Pedagogy and Data-intensive Algorithmic Technologies; 20: Global Teacher Movements Contra EdTech: Taking on Inequality and Resisting Neoliberal Education Reforms in the Time of COVID
