Ethnography and Education Policy: A Critical Analysis of Normalcy and Difference in Schools

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This book addresses the relationship between the production of social problems in educational policy, the research practices required to inform policy, and the daily production of normalcies and differences in school contexts. It reports on the opportunities and consequences for policy, research, and practice when normalcy is stigmatized at the same level as difference. The book employs a critical analysis combining queer, feminist, and post-representational theories to understand the implications of dominant ways of understanding the division between normal and different subjectivities and how they reiterate structures of inequality in schools. Front Matter ....Pages i-v Introduction: Schools Are Being Produced Right Now (Claudia Matus)....Pages 1-18 Shot and Fragment: The Place of Researchers in Ethnography (Pablo Herraz Mardones, Andrés Haye Molina)....Pages 19-34 Queering Habits and Entanglements of the Normal and Deviant Subjectivities in Ethnographies (Claudia Matus)....Pages 35-53 Discomfort—Affects, Actors, and Objects in Ethnographic Intervention (Carolina Rojas Lasch)....Pages 55-72 The Production of the Problem of Difference in Neoliberal Educational Policies (Marcela Apablaza)....Pages 73-92 Normalcy and Deviance: The Production of Schools and Their Subjects (Anita Sanyal Tudela)....Pages 93-109 Diversity and the Failure of the Civilizing Project (Laura Luna Figueroa, Alfredo Gaete)....Pages 111-134 Unpredictable Meanings (Claudia Matus)....Pages 135-150 Disentanglements (Claudia Matus)....Pages 151-165 Future Thoughts (Claudia Matus)....Pages 167-170