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Researching policy elites in education

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dc.contributor.authorAl'Abri, K.
dc.contributor.authorHogan, A.
dc.contributor.authorLingard, B.
dc.contributor.authorSellar, S.
dc.contributor.editorStacey, M.
dc.contributor.editorMockler, N.
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines methodological issues associated with interviewing policy elites. There is limited literature in the field of policy sociology in education that engages with the issue of researching policy elites, yet research in this field often involves conducting interviews with officials and senior staff in government and other organisations, including education businesses. These interviews are a socially complex phenomenon in terms of researcher positionality, recruiting and assessing participants, conducting interviews, and analysing and representing interview data. This chapter proffers a comparative analysis of interview research undertaken with policy elites across three cases (government, an international organisation and a multinational edu-business) to highlight common and distinct concerns, challenges and issues. We argue for the necessity to seriously consider interview data, as well as interview processes, as important analytical resources in the development of defensible accounts of education policy development and contexts and the role of policy elites in this work. We advocate for researchers to reject epistemological innocence and to be reflexive in their analyses and representations of interview data
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method, 2024 / Stacey, M., Mockler, N. (ed./s), Ch.16, pp.235-249
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003353379-19
dc.identifier.isbn9781032405001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/38179
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.rightsCopyright 2024 2024 selection and editorial matter, Meghan Stacey and Nicole Mockler; individual chapters, the contributors.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003353379-19
dc.subjectinterviewing policy elites, sociology in education, recruiting and assessing participants
dc.titleResearching policy elites in education
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916840328601831

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