This book provides a comprehensive overview of key approaches in critical education policy research. With chapters from internationally-recognised and established scholars in the field, it provides an authoritative account of how different questions may be approached and answered.

1. Introduction: Analysing education policy: An introduction Part 1 2. Document and text analysis in critical education policy studies 3. Critical Discourse Analysis: Language, ideology and power 4. Thinking with Foucault to understand education policy 5. Indigenist Policy Analysis: The Uluru Statement from the Heart as a roadmap towards recognising Indigenous sovereignty in Indigenous education 6. Media analysis: From the wide angle to the zoom lens 7. Sites of promotion: Analysing websites, prospectuses and experiential marketing 8. Online networks and education policy sociology Part 2 9. Participant analysis in critical education policy studies 10. Network ethnography in education: A literature review of network ethnography as a methodology and how it has been applied in critical policy studies 11. Actor-Network Theory: A material-semiotic approach to policy analysis 12. The vital materiality of policy 13. Institutional Ethnography: Discovering how education policy organises the everyday work of people 14. Decolonising curriculum policy research through community centredness 15. Beyond surveys and focus groups: Including the views of children and young people in education policy analysis 16. Researching policy elites in education 17. Conclusion: Analysing education policy: Now and into the future