Public science and participatory policy development: Reclaiming policy as a democratic project
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2012
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Education Policy
Abstract
People witness today in the US what might be considered a "generous hijacking" of educational policy. Policy debates on charters, vouchers, for profit schools, testing and evaluation companies, and "education reform" reveal a triple privatization of educational policy. Varied enactments of educational privatization dot the globe, linked in a commitment to concentrate policy-making upward, toward the stratification, gentrification, and privatization of the public sector. While many have written critically on this neo-liberal transformation of public education policy, in this brief essay the authors try to "recover a language of and for education articulated in terms of ethics, moral obligations and values" (Ball 2004, 24-5) by framing public science as a strategic intervention for educational justice and policy development.
DOI
10.1080/02680939.2012.710023
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
84867272246 (Scopus)
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Fine, Michelle; Ayala, Jennifer; and Zaal, Mayida, "Public science and participatory policy development: Reclaiming policy as a democratic project" (2012). Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works. 193.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/teaching-learning-facpubs/193