Historicizing in Critical Policy Analysis: The Production of Cultural Histories and Microhistories

Autor/in	Brewer, Curtis A.
Titel	Historicizing in Critical Policy Analysis: The Production of Cultural Histories and Microhistories
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 27 (2014) 3, S.273-288 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2012.759297
Schlagwörter	Epistemology; Policy Analysis; Social History; Power Structure; Critical Theory; Research Methodology; Political Issues; Cultural Background; Educational Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erkenntnistheorie; Politikfeldanalyse; Sozialgeschichte; Kritische Theorie; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Politischer Faktor; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	The practice of critical policy analysis often emphasizes the importance of historicizing the present. However, there is very little guidance for critical policy analysts on the methodical production of histories. In this paper, I meet this need by arguing for the use of methodologies embedded in the production of both cultural histories and microhistories. I show how the historical narratives that are produced by critical policy analysts must be able to reveal patterns of long-term social interactions and domination, while simultaneously showing how people on a smaller temporal scale still disrupt and bend these social structures to their needs. Most importantly, I argue that using such methodologies allows critical policy analysts to practice a form of historicizing that explicitly adheres to an epistemological stance that emphasizes the social construction of knowledge through power relationships. (As Provided).
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