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

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.