Education Research and the Media: Challenges and Possibilities (Hardcover)

Introduction

1. Education research in a time of transnational media: Trolls, tribulations and testimony; Aspa Baroutsis, Pat Thomson, and Stewart Riddle

Part I: Media logic and the construction of education in crisis

2. Entering the political fray: The role of public education scholars in media debates; Cynthia Reyes and Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin
3. Dirty politics and educational research: The case of national standards in New Zealand; Martin Thrupp
4. PISA performance and declining standards: Emphasising quality and neglecting equity; Aspa Baroutsis and Bob Lingard
5. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised? #RevolutionSchool and representations of education crisis and reform across traditional and social media; Nicole Mockler
6. "You’re just an educationalist": The (social) mediatisation of the deepening university-school divide in England and beyond; Pat Thomson and Stewart Riddle

Part II: Constructing identities and difference

7. Tweet "The phallic teacher": Feminist early career research in a neoliberal imaginary; Linda McKnight and Linda J. Graham
8. Waging a war on ‘difference’: A critical analysis of online public commentary relating to the inclusion of sexuality-diverse families in the school curriculum; Michelle Jeffries
9. The cartography of Muslim schoolgirls’ femininity and the haptic-optic media materialisation in an age of counter-terrorism; Shiva Zarabadi
10. Cyborg scholarship: Fusion of technologies and academic identities; Deborah Netolicky and Naomi Barnes

Conclusion

11. That’s a wrap!; Aspa Baroutsis, Pat Thomson, and Stewart Riddle