International Handbook of Educational Policy

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Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood, David Livingstone
Springer Science & Business Media, 14 mai 2008 - 1116 pagini
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.

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New policy worlds
3
School districtwide reform policies in education
9
Looking back to move forward with
18
Accountable schools and the leadership they need
21
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
A policy strategy to control
579
Triage or tapestry? Teacher unions work in an era of systemic
593
The case of literacy
613
The interface of policy research
629
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
The uncertain role of local
260
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
PART
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Multiple treatment interactions
473
A policy framework
491
Policy practice
507
Fostering
527
historical perspectives on teacher
569
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
Learning and work transition policies in a comparative
847
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
Index 1065
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Pagina 41 - If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Pagina 425 - Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
Pagina 425 - But transforming leadership ultimately becomes moral in that it raises the level of human conduct and ethical aspiration of both leader and led, and thus it has a transforming effect on both...
Pagina 41 - States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.
Pagina 64 - Ball argues that discourses are about what can be said, and thought, but also about who can speak, when, where and with what authority.
Pagina 206 - ... a comprehensive design for effective school functioning, including instruction, assessment, classroom management, professional development, parental involvement, and school management, that aligns the school's curriculum, technology, and professional development into a...
Pagina 35 - It was not that some of the ideas from the business world might not have been used to advantage in educational administration, but that the wholesale adoption of the basic values, as well as the techniques of the business-industrial world, was a serious mistake in an institution whose primary purpose was the education of children.
Pagina 425 - Transforming leadership is dynamic leadership in the sense that the leaders throw themselves into a relationship with followers who will feel "elevated" by it and often become more active themselves, thereby creating new cadres of leaders.
Pagina 129 - Start programs — (A) know that letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named; (B) recognize a word as a unit of print; (C) identify at least 10 letters of the alphabet; and (D) associate sounds with written words.
Pagina 90 - THE ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was set up under a Convention signed in Paris on...

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