New Directions in Education Policy Implementation
Confronting Complexity
- 300 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A companion to Allan R. Odden's Education Policy Implementation, also published by SUNY Press, this book presents original work by a new generation of scholars contributing to education policy implementation research. The contributors define education policy implementation as the product of the interaction among particular policies, people, and places. Their analyses of previous generations of implementation research reveal that contemporary findings not only build directly on lessons learned from the past, but also seek to deepen past findings. These contemporary researchers also break from the past by seeking a more nuanced, contingent, and rigorous theory-based explication of how implementation unfolds. They argue that researchers and practitioners can help improve education policy implementation by not asking simply what works, but rather focusing their attention on what works, for whom, where, when, and why.
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Table of contents
- New Directions in EducationPolicy Implementation
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Complexity and Policy Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field
- 2. Communities of Practice Theory and the Role of Teacher Professional Community in Policy Implementation
- 3. Policy Implementation and Cognition:The Role of Human, Social, and Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation
- 4. Language Matters: How Characteristics of Language Complicate Policy Implementation
- 5. Revisiting Policy Implementation as a Political Phenomenon:The Case of Reconstitution Policies
- 6. Connections in the Policy Chain: The “Co-construction” of Implementationin Comprehensive School Reform
- 7. Building Policy from Practice: Implementation as Organizational Learning
- 8. Toward a Critical Approach to Education Policy Implementation: Implications for the (Battle)Field
- 9. An Economic Approach to Education Policy Implementation
- 10. Social Capital and the Problem of Implementation
- 11. Implementation Research in Education: Lessons Learned, Lingering Questions and New Opportunities
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index