Ethnography and Education Policy

Claudia Matus is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She leads the interdisciplinary research network (NDE | Normalcy, Difference and Education), which studies the production of gender norms in scientific research, educational institutions, and public spaces.  She also leads the research group BioSocioCultural Inclusion: Challenging Homogeneity in Education at the Center for Educational Justice, which focuses on advancing a discourse that problematizes and updates the complex links between the biological, social and cultural spheres and the effects these links have for the production of subjects, objects, and affects. Her research interests include subjectivities and post-representational theories, space/time and movement theories, knowledge production, and critical policy studies.

• 1 Introduction: Schools are being produced right now.- 2 Shot and Fragment: The place of researchers in Ethnography.- 3 Queering habits and entanglements of the Normal and Deviant subjectivities in Ethnographies.- 4 Discomfort: Affects, actors, and objects in Ethnographic intervention.- 5 The production of the problem of difference in neoliberal educational policies.- 6 Normalcy and Deviance: The production of schools and their subjects.- 7 Diversity and the failure of the civilizing project.- 8 Unpredictable meanings.- 9 Disentanglements.- 10 Future thoughts.