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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Mediating education policy: Making up the 'anti-politics' of third sector participation in public education
Author(s): Williamson, Ben
Contact Email: ben.williamson@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: mediators
networks
network governance
policy networks
think-tanks
third sector
Issue Date: Mar-2014
Date Deposited: 13-Dec-2013
Citation: Williamson B (2014) Mediating education policy: Making up the 'anti-politics' of third sector participation in public education. British Journal of Educational Studies, 62 (1), pp. 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2013.857386
Abstract: This article examines the participation of ‘third-sector’ organisations in public education in England. These organisations act as a cross-sectoral policy network made up of new kinds of policy experts: mediators and brokers with entrepreneurial careers in ideas. They have sought to make education reform thinkable, intelligible and practicable in terms of a computational discourse consisting of code, networks, interactivity and feedback, and related ideas of decentralisation, open methods and personalisation. What characterises this style of thinking is an ‘anti-political’ preoccupation with computer-coded systems and the idea of networks as a model for new political and educational forms.
DOI Link: 10.1080/00071005.2013.857386
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