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Advancing Critical Social Network Analysis to Address Issues of Equity in Education Policy and Politics (Table 35)

Thu, April 11, 9:00 to 10:30am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This working group roundtable session unites three projects that, collectively, expand the theoretical and methodological toolkit for addressing how power interacts with social networks in ways that create, sustain, and/or ameliorate racial, socioeconomic, and other forms of social inequity in education. The first paper advances social network theory as applied to policymaking by synthesizing current knowledge on how brokers and brokerage processes are associated with various policy outcomes. The second paper maps conservative education networks and analyzes their strategies, messages, and agendas in order to create possibilities for disruption and mobilization of counter-movements. The third paper illustrates how social network analysis can be used as a rapid response tool in a research-practice partnership with an equity-focused organization.

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