Engaging Science Policy: From the Side of the Messy

by Patricia A. Lather and Patti Lather

Situated in education policy analysis, this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across the social sciences regarding the nature of science, qualitative/quantitative tensions, post-foundational possibilities, and the research/policy nexus. Located between «the aftermath of poststructuralism» and the «new scientism» afoot in neoliberal audit culture, the book posits an engaged social science that is accountable to complexity and the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143310329X
• ISBN13: 9781433103292
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"