Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text and discourse in education : an introduction to critical discourse analysis -- Getting our hands dirty : provisional politics in postmodern conditions -- The material effects of the word : apologies, "stolen children" and public discourse -- New narratives of human capital : recent redirections in Australian educational policy -- After the marketplace : evidence, social science and educational research -- Curriculum, ethics, metanarrative : teaching and learning beyond the nation -- Teaching after the market : from commodity to cosmopolitan -- Using Bourdieu to make policy : mobilising community capital and literacy -- Race and language as capital : a sociological template for language education reform -- Educating the other : standpoint and theory in the internationalisation of higher education -- Generalising across borders : policy and the limits of educational science -- Another ethnic autobiography? : childhood and the cultural economy of looking -- On the race of teachers and students : a reflection on experience, scientific evidence and silence.