Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research：The Practice of Methods

This unique book examines how researchers make scientific knowledge on education policy in practice and how we 'practise method' in the out of reach spaces of education policy and governance. Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars, the book explores how education scholars research and construct high-level education policy settings through and with their methodology. It takes a wide and nuanced view to reflect on the ways that researchers give meaning to what they do when they practise research methodology, and how they balance politics and ethics of policy settings with external pressures within academia.

The book analyses the entanglements between the practice of research methods in education policy and the changing nature of policy and research environments, stimulating discussion that goes beyond conventional reflexive analysis to understand education policy-making in richer terms. Offering new ways of thinking about research methodologies, the book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of education research and education theory, as well as social scientists interested in research methodologies more broadly.