Assembling and Dissembling
Policy as Productive Play
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9735429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill Koyama (0000-0003-0990-4930, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author), Jill P Koyama (State University of New York at Buffalo, NY), Hervé Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 157-162 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x12442799 |
| OpenAlex | W2046141258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 20 |
In this piece, the authors examine educational policy by focusing on the ways in which actors “play” or selectively follow, negotiate, and appropriate cultural instructions and rules. They outline a framework that situates assemblage, a notion utilized in actor-network theory, within the critical cultural study of policy. Treating policy assemblage as a dynamic cultural form, they argue, provides a way of revealing the complexities of sociomaterial connections inherent to policy implementation. The authors pay particular attention to what happens when disparate actors join together to perform policy-directed tasks. It is within these heterogeneous and hybrid linkages that policy negotiations and controversies can become productive play. The authors briefly discuss the dynamic composition of productive policy play. Then, applying it to a controversy revealed in the ethnographic analysis of No Child Left Behind conducted by the first author, they demonstrate the framework’s usefulness in considering the sociocultural processes of policy in action
Action (physics · Actor–network theory · Assemblage (archaeology · Cultural policy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Negotiation · Policy analysis · Political science · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
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Recontextualising policy discourses
Performativity and pedagogising knowledge
SDG4, data consensus and the rise of experimentality in global education policy
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Desiring-futures in education policy
The meanings of production(s)
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Friction
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Generating, comparing, manipulating, categorizing
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |