An article in which I’ve utilized Actor-Network Theory (ANT): Koyama.2011. Journal of Education Policy ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY I draw upon actor-network theory (Latour, 1995, 2005) to examine the dynamic work and the relational links set in motion by the appropriation—commonly referred to as the formation and implementation—of educational policy and “to grasp the interactions (and disjunctions) between [...]

THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE Despite the multiple and various “critiques in anthropology [that] have largely dethroned the concept of culture from its once-central position in anthropological theory” (Gershon and Taylor 2008: 417), culture remains an enduring and relevant notion in my work on education in America. I take seriously that “[a]s anthropologists, we must face [...]