Designed as a reference, learning and teaching tool to assist students, educators and researchers, this book describes the history, contribution and application of over 90 keywords in the field of education policy research.

Introduction Keywords A Activism Actor-Network Theory Advocacy Affect Alignment Anthropology Archaeology Artefact Assemblage Attraction Automation B Borrowing Bricolage Broker C Community Consultant Context Convergence Criticality Critical discourse analysis Critical race theory Cultural political economy Cycle D Decoupling Deliberative policy analysis Deliverology Dialogue Diffusion Digital education Digital policy sociology Discourse analysis Dispositif Divergence Drift E Elite Embodiment Enactment Entrepreneur Environmental and sustainability policy analysis Epistemology Event Experimentation Expertise F Fast policy Feminist policy analysis Framing G Genealogy Governance Governmentality H Historiography I Implementation Indigenous policy analysis Infrastructure Institutional theory Instrument Intermediary Interpretive policy analysis L Leadership M Mediation Mediatisation Micro-credential Mobility Multiple- streams analysis N Narrative policy analysis Neoliberalism Numbers O Ontology P Partnership Performativity Policy ethnography Policy field analysis Policy learning Policy network analysis Policy scholarship Policy science Policy sociology Policy trajectory analysis Policy work Privatisation Problematisation Q Queer policy analysis R Rationality Regime Regulation Resistance Rhetorical analysis S Scaler policy analysis Silence Social network analysis Spatial policy analysis T Temporal policy analysis Think tank Topology Transfer Translation U Unbundling V Visual methods W World culture theory

"A remarkable work, a vital and daily abécédaire for any researcher, educator or student who seeks to inventively relate to our educational present and use theorising to critically grasp its complexity." Emiliano Grimaldi, University of Naples Federico II

• This is the first book to provide students, educators and researchers with a state-of-the-art reference for navigating the etymology and epistemology of the language of global education policy research; • It uses research papers, media articles, policy documents and non-government reports to trace over 90 of the most cited keywords used in global education policy research.