Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed?; 2 Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice; 3 Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal; 4 Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance; 5 Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices; 6 When Politics Becomes Pedagogy; 7 Beyond Educational Policy; 8 Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil; 9 The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy; 10 "That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!"; 11 We Are Mountain."