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A Reflection on Engaged Scholarship
Educational Policy (2021)
  • Bethy Leondardi
  • Amy N. Farley
  • Jamel K. Donnor, William & Mary
Abstract
While the policy distractions outlined in this collection manifest in myriad ways—and our authors examine them through a wide range of lenses and analytic tools—we were struck as an editorial team by the commonalities they share. What is clear throughout these articles is that scholars, most centrally, raise the ubiquitous power of policy distraction as it relates to ignoring systems and structures that serve to maintain normativity in many forms. Throughout, scholars instead point to policy distractions that locate both problems—and solutions—in individual actors (e.g., students, educators), symbolic gestures, and taken-for-granted procedures and practices that are rooted in white supremacy, cis-heteronormativy, anti-blackness, and patriarchy, to name a few. In this final article we, as an editorial team, offer insights about how we see the voices in the Issue in conversation, and, in the spirit of curious collaboration and engaged scholarship, we invite you to think along with us.
Keywords
  • intersectionality,
  • politics of education,
  • policy distraction
Publication Date
Winter February 23, 2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904820987793
Citation Information
Bethy Leondardi, Amy N. Farley and Jamel K. Donnor. "A Reflection on Engaged Scholarship" Educational Policy Vol. 35 Iss. 2 (2021) p. 383 - 392
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jamel-donnor/37/