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Deconstructing Governance

Perspectives in post-positivist thinking

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Introduction

In this chapter, I demonstrate the application of using different theoretical approaches to frame meanings and practices of governance. While there are clear overlaps and synergies in the development of these approaches given their shared postpositivist orientations, they are nonetheless distinctive through making possible different kinds of analytical and political work. Therefore, each theoretical position is discussed separately in order to make explicit their epistemological and normative commitments. These approaches are discussed in turn and include:

  1. (i)

    A Gramscian approach to governance (Davies 2012)

  2. (ii)

    A state-centric approach to governance (Pierre and Guy Peters 2005)

  3. (iii)

    A deliberative-interactive approach to governance (Kooiman 2003)

  4. (iv)

    A interpretivist-constructivist approach to governance (Bevir and Rhodes 2006)

  5. (v)

    A governmentality approach to governance (Miller and Rose 2008)

In what follows I discuss the role of governance as a meta-narrative in...

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  1. Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

    Andrew Wilkins

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  1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Michael A. Peters

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Richard Heraud

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  1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Kwok Kuen Tsang

  2. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Philip Wing Keung Chan

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Wilkins, A. (2022). Deconstructing Governance. In: Peters, M.A., Heraud, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_223-1

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