Network Ethnography: Following the "Whos" and the "Wheres" of Education Policy

• In Event: Ethnographic and Participatory Approaches for Understating Multiple Facets of Educational Practice

Abstract

This session aims to present and discuss the method of network ethnography, considering its possibilities and challenges and its appropriateness as a research method for the study of the functioning of global policy networks. We then ‘put the method to work’ by providing an empirical example of one such network and one set of policy mobilities, focused on a global education policy network which begins from a US philanthropist, Irene Pritzker, and her support of local Low Fee Private Schools (LFPS) through microfinance banking and related support activities in Ghana. Here, we follow a pipeline – an embodied policy and explore some of the ‘whos’ and ‘wheres’ of policy, focussing on microfinance as a mobile policy.

Authors

• Stephen J. Ball, Institute of Education - London

• Carolina Junemann, UCL institute of education

• Diego Santori, Roehampton University