This open access book addresses the complex interrelations between education policy and
education practice developed under new ways of governance. It illuminates the nexuses of the
interrelated fields of education policy and education practice including the characteristics of
these relationships. The book offers a selection of cases with varied approaches to the
question of how different actors and stakeholders are situated in contemporary policy and
practice nexuses. The cases presented includes theoretical and conceptual studies historical
studies ethnographic studies and studies combining empirical interview data and quantitative
data. The book shows what constitutes the contemporary nexuses in education and discusses the
need to re-consider how we in education research approach policy and practice in the interface
between structure and agency for the future developments in the education policy-practice
nexus.
