Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgements vii
• Introduction: Policy As/In Practice—a Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy 1
• Part I - Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Socioclltural Studies 23
• 1: Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? the Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea 25
• 2: Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice 59
• 3: Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal 77
• Part II - Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy 101
• 4: Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance 103
• 5: Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices 123
• 6: When Politics Becomes Pedagogy 145
• 7: Beyond Educational Policy; Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching [Science] for Understanding 1 167
• 8: Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil 193
• Part III - Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice 217
• 9: The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy 219

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgements vii
• Introduction: Policy As/In Practice—a Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy 1
• Part I - Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Socioclltural Studies 23
• 1: Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? the Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea 25
• 2: Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice 59
• 3: Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal 77
• Part II - Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy 101
• 4: Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance 103
• 5: Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices 123
• 6: When Politics Becomes Pedagogy 145
• 7: Beyond Educational Policy; Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching [Science] for Understanding 1 167
• 8: Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil 193
• Part III - Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice 217
• 9: The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy 219
• 10: [That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!] 243
• 11: [We Are Mountain] 265
• 12: Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy 1 295
• Index 317
• About the Editors and Contributors 323