International Handbook of Educational PolicyNina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood, David Livingstone Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood and David Livingstone This Handbook presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research, in over ?fty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries. It is organized into ?ve broad sections which capture many of the current dominant educational policy foci and at the same time situate current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters themselves are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications c- tained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The se- re?exivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and c- trasts allows readers to consider not only a range of approaches to policy analysis but also the ways in which policies and policy ideas play out in di?erent times and places. The sections move from a focus on prevailing policy tendencies through increasingly critical and ‘‘outsider’’ perspectives on policy. They address, in turn, the contemporary strategic emphasis on large-scale reform; substantive emphases at several levels – on leadership and governance, improving teacher quality and conceptualizing learning in various domains around the notion of literacies and concluding, ?nally, with a contrasting topic, workplace learning, which has had less policy attention and thus allows readers to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching under the bright gaze of policy. |
Contents
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The interface of policy research | 32 |
International comparative studies of education and largescale | 75 |
A changed policy environment for US universities | 100 |
The implications of policy decisions on practices in early | 115 |
Policypractice connections in state standardsbased reform | 133 |
historical perspectives on teacher | 569 |
A policy strategy to control | 579 |
Triage or tapestry? Teacher unions work in an era of systemic | 593 |
The case of literacy | 613 |
A critical alternative | 661 |
An analysis of policies from the United | 676 |
Assessing literacies | 695 |
Literacies in families and communities | 715 |
Informed consent? Issues in implementing and sustaining | 153 |
School districtwide reform policies in education | 173 |
Five key factors in supporting comprehensive school reform | 195 |
Kissing kin | 219 |
Linkages between Federal State and local levels in educational | 239 |
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Accountability policies and their effects | 281 |
Policy panacea | 295 |
Interrogating | 328 |
Approaches to the funding of schools and their effects on capacity | 351 |
Formulaic approaches to the funding of colleges and universities | 371 |
Educational leadership in policy contexts that strive for equity | 421 |
Kenneth Leithwood | 439 |
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Learning and work transition policies in a comparative | ix |
Multiple treatment interactions | 473 |
A policy framework | 491 |
Policy practice | 507 |
Fostering | 527 |
Literacies and media culture | 735 |
From print literacy to dialogic literacy | 748 |
Mind the | 763 |
From abstract ideals to accountable | 779 |
Literacy in developed and developing countries | 792 |
A critical assessment | 828 |
Disjunctions in the supply of and demand for education in | 865 |
Running faster to stay in the same place? The intended | 885 |
Improving gender equality in work organisations by action | 902 |
Information and communications technologies and workplace | 923 |
Recognition of learning through work | 943 |
Trade unions and changing practices of workers education | 963 |
Recent research | 976 |
Hidden dimensions of labour force | 997 |
Unpaid household and care | 1023 |
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academic accountability African American allocation American approach assessment Bodilly Canada challenges charter schools classroom comprehensive school reform context costs countries CSRD cultural curriculum Datnow David Livingstone democracy economic education system educational change educational policy educational reform Educational Research effects Elmore EMOs enrolment equity evaluation example Falmer federal focus focused free market Fuhrman Fullan funding formulas global goals higher education impact implementation initiatives institutions instructional issues Key Stage leaders Leithwood linkages literacy mandates ment models multicultural neo-liberal OECD Ontario organisations outcomes parent involvement performance policy makers policymakers political practice preschool professional development programs public education public schools responsibility role school boards school choice school districts school improvement social standards standards-based reform strategies student achievement studies teaching and learning testing TIMSS tion Toronto University University of Toronto voucher York
References to this book
A Synthesis of Research on Second Language Writing in English Ilona Leki,Alister Cumming,Tony Silva No preview available - 2008 |