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Knowledge. 1. Social mobilizations and official knowledge ; 2. Sex, sexuality and HIV: 'Education', in the broadest sense of the word ; 3. Education for inclusion or exclusion: representation of ethnic minorities in Chinese mainstream history textbooks ; 4. Social theory, biological sciences and the sociology of knowledge in education ; 5. Geoff Whitty: Student, friend and colleague; some personal reflections -- Policy. 6. The neoliberalization of the state, the processes of 'fragmentation' and the research implications of the new political terrain of English schooling ; 7. The White bones of policy: Structure, agency and a vulture's-eye view with critical race theory ; 8. From bastion of class privilege to public benefactor: The remarkable repositioning of private schools ; 9. Pursuing racial justice within higher education: Is conflict inevitable? ; 10. The policy sociology of Geoff Whitty: Current and emergent issues regarding education research in use ;11. Revolutions in educational policy: The vexed question of evidence and policy development -- Practice. 12. Why isn't this empowering? The discursive positioning of teachers in efforts to improve teaching ; 13. Can teachers still be teachers? The near impossibility of humanity in the transactional workplace ; 14. Contestation, contradiction and collaboration in equity and widening participation: in conversation with Geoff Whitty ; 15. Quality, impact and knowledge traditions in the study of education.

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