Education Policy as subject: literature review

Abstract

Research that takes as object of study the discipline Education Policy has gained more and more space in the field of research. With the purpose of presenting and emphasizing the importance of these studies, this paper, of descriptive character, based on a bibliographic survey in the Thesis and Dissertation Database of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (known as BDTD), the Thematic Library of the Network of Theoretical and Epistemological Studies in Educational Policy (ReLePe), considering 35 works found, presents the range of research on the theme and characterizes them according to the focus of analysis. Considered a still recent and expanded theme from the decade of 2010, we concluded that the analysis on the subject of Education Policy and correlates has a diversity, with the majority focusing on the curricular structure of the subject (syllabus, timetable, bibliography, courses they contemplate). We also point out that this work intends to serve as a basis for analyzes that contemplate the discipline in its theoretical and epistemological aspects, enriching the debate on strengthening and consolidating the field of Education Policy.

Keywords

• education policy discipline.
• studies on education policy.
• field of education policy.
• training of researchers in education policy.
• research in education policy.