Explorations in Policy Enactment: Feminist Thought Experiments with Basil Bernstein's Code Theory

This paper builds on feminist elaborations of Bernstein's code theory to engage in a series of thought experiments with interview data produced during a co-inquiry design-based research intervention project. It presents three accounts of thinking/writing with data. Our purpose in presenting thr...

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Published inGender and education Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 417 - 434
Main Authors Singh, Parlo, Pini, Barbara, Glasswell, Kathryn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 19.05.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Accounts
Caring
College School Cooperation
Commercialization
Data
Education policy
Educational Change
Educational Policy
Educational theory
Elementary Schools
Enactment
Experiments
Feminism
Foreign Countries
Interviews
Partnerships in Education
Poverty
Principals
Research design
Scholarship
Theories
Theory
Thought experiments
Women Administrators
Australia
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Summary:This paper builds on feminist elaborations of Bernstein's code theory to engage in a series of thought experiments with interview data produced during a co-inquiry design-based research intervention project. It presents three accounts of thinking/writing with data. Our purpose in presenting three different accounts of interview data is to demonstrate the relation between theory and empirical data. In the first two accounts, interview data are interpreted and performed through the lens of theory. By contrast, in the third account attention is paid to the ways in which care is practised not only in terms of policy enactment, but also research enactment. Empirical data are not moulded to fit generalisable theoretical frameworks. Rather, empirical data push back on theoretical concepts in a collaborative thought experiment.
ISSN:0954-0253
1360-0516
DOI:10.1080/09540253.2016.1216523