This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The final section on experiences will extend the reflections in the methods section with concrete case studies.

Introduction: Policy as/in Practice--Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural Studies Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice: What Kind of Relationships in How (De)Centralized a Context? by Donald K. Adams, Mark B. Ginsburg, Thomas Clayton, Martha E. Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal by Margaret Sutton Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies by Khaula Murtadha-Watts Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala by Martha E. Mantilla When Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy by Susan Street Beyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding by Pamela Anne Quiroz Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy: New Immigrant Education in the Rural Midwest by Sandra L. Cade "That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!": The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community by R.G. Schwab "We Are Mountain": Appalachian Educators' Responses to the Challenge of Systemic Reform by Maureen Porter Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy by Lisa Rosen Index

Drawing on work informed by anthropology, sociology, and critical theory, this series of edited volumes and original monographs seeks to advance our knowledge about the cultural and contextual dimensions of educational policy. Anchored in qualitative, comparative research and pragmatic conceptual inquiry, the studies interrogate educational policy at different levels of social life. These studies will examine the various means by which educational policy is appropriated in the cultural and institutional contexts of everyday life: the ways teachers discuss, obey, or subvert policy through creative practice, or the ways students likewise comply or resist policy directives. By providing comparative perspectives on the policy cycle, this series contributes to refining our understanding of how those aspects of educational policy formation/appropriation specific to particular institutional cultures interrelate with broader political-economic and cultural processes.