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This article reflects on research in educational policies and presents the approach of epistemological analysis of educational policy, which provides tools both for producing knowledge around studies on educational policy and for guiding researchers developing studies on educational policy. First, the text conceptualizes educational policy as a practice of government, within a neoinstitutionalist approach, since it sees education policy as the set of decisions made by the public power on education, according to an agenda defined amid tensions and conflicts arising from the demands and interests of different sectors of the state and society, organized into social classes and interest groups. Next, it briefly contextualizes the development of the theoretical field of educational policy. Finally, it explains not only the conceptual and methodological tools that the approach of the epistemology of the educational policy provides the studies of the area with, but also some epistemological approaches that underpin the analysis of public policies. |
