Educational analysts need new ways to engage with policy processes in a networked world of complex transnational connections. In this discussion, Tara Fenwick and Richard Edwards argue for a greater focus on materiality in educational policy as a way to trace the heterogeneous interactions and precarious linkages that enact policy as complex…

Three individualistic accounts of social justice, (natural rights, human welfare, and fairness) are applicable to language policy planning in education. The article considers them limited and recommends a collectivist account which views various groups' needs as potentially different. It notes that language minority students require schooling…