ISBN:
9781402032011
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
Series Statement:
Springer International Handbooks of Education 13
DDC:
379
Keywords:
Education
;
Comparative education
;
Education and state
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bildungspolitik
Abstract:
This Handbook is for policy researchers, analysts, academics and graduate students interested in educational policy, educational reform, educational governance and leadership, teacher quality, literacy, and workplace learning. This Handbook is the only one of its kind. It has over fifty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries and presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research. It captures many of the current dominant educational policy foci, situating current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications contained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The self-reflexivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and contrasts 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 different times and places. Sections cover 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, finally, 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Globalization and Educational Change: New Policy Worlds; Marketization in Education: Looking Back to Move Forward with a Stronger Critique; Multicultural Education in the United States and Canada: The Importance of National Policies; International Comparative Studies of Education and Large-Scale Change; A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities; The Implications of Policy Decisions on Practices in Early Childhood Education; Policy-Practice Connections in State Standards-Based Reform; Informed Consent? Issues in Implementing and Sustaining Government-Driven Educational Change
Description / Table of Contents:
School District-Wide Reform Policies in EducationFive Key Factors in Supporting Comprehensive School Reform; Knowledge Producers and Policymakers: Kissing Kin or Squabbling Siblings?; Linkages Between Federal, State and Local Levels in Educational Reform; Educational Governance Reforms: The Uncertain Role of Local School Boards in the United States; Accountability Policies and Their Effects; Parent and Community Involvement in Schools: Policy Panacea or Pandemic?; Democratic Values in Bureaucratic Structures: Interrogating the Essential Tensions
Description / Table of Contents:
Approaches to the Funding of Schools and Their Effects on CapacityFormulaic Approaches to the Funding of Colleges and Universities; The UK Policy for School Leadership: Uneasy Transitions; Educational Leadership in Policy Contexts That Strive for Equity; Accountable Schools and the Leadership They Need; The Recruitment and Retention of School Leaders: Understanding Administrator Supply and Demand; Teacher Certification Policy: Multiple Treatment Interactions on the Body Politic; Retaining Teachers in High-Poverty Schools: A Policy Framework
Description / Table of Contents:
The Cultural Context of Teachers' Work: Policy, Practice and PerformanceSchool Improvement Within a Knowledge Economy: Fostering Professional Learning from a Multidimensional Perspective; Teacher Informal Learning and Teacher Knowledge: Theory, Practice and Policy; No Teacher Left Untested: Historical Perspectives on Teacher Regulation; Teacher Professional Standards: A Policy Strategy to Control, Regulate or Enhance the Teaching Profession?; Triage or Tapestry? Teacher Unions' Work in an Era of Systemic Reform; Improving Research-Policy Relationships: The Case of Literacy
Description / Table of Contents:
Literacies in Early Childhood: The Interface of Policy, Research, and PracticeBalanced Elementary Literacy Instruction in the United States: A Personal Perspective; Evidence-Based State Literacy Policy: A Critical Alternative; Literacies in Adolescence: An Analysis of Policies from the United States and Queensland, Australia; Assessing Literacies; Literacies in Families and Communities; Literacies and Media Culture; Technology and Literacies: From Print Literacy to Dialogic Literacy; Adult Literacy Policy: Mind the GAP; Shaping Literacy Policy: From Abstract Ideals to Accountable Practices
Description / Table of Contents:
Literacy in Developed and Developing Countries
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-3201-3
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