In the past decade, post-structural policy analysis in education has evolved, primarily focusing on disrupting dominant narratives about education policy research, development and implementation, and the aims and outcomes of the policy-research nexus. This book originates from an ‘Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World’ workshop held in conjunction with the University of British Columbia and sponsored by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant. The workshop focused on one over-arching question: To what extent can post-structural theories offer innovative policy analyses, and contribute to new forms of policy development and implementation? The chapters in this collection provide responses from the participants of the workshop, and serve as illustrations of the broad range of scholarship that may be identified as post-structural policy analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.
within the social sciences has, according to Meg Maguire and Stephen Ball, produced three main qualitative research orientations that they categorize as 'situated studies of policy formation' (1994, p. 279), trajectory studies and ...
CANDY, P. and CREBART, R. (1997), “Australia's Progress towards Lifelong Learning”, Comparative Studies on Lifelong Learning Policies, NIER and UIE, Tokyo, Japan. CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION (1981), On Lifelong Integrated Education, ...
This 2004 edition of Education Policy Analysis includes articles on the role of non-university institutions in tertiary education; gaining returns from investments in ICT; the challenges lifelong learning poses for schools; and taxes and lifelong learning.
Education Policy Analysis 1997 is the companion volume to OECD's statistical annual, Education at a Glance 2007. It includes articles on key issues, including costs and expenditures, human capital, adult literacy, educational failure and success, and tertiary institutions' response to new interests.
Among the key policy implications that follow from this analysis are the following tasks for governments and tertiary education systems: • to improve quality and to ensure that all young people successfully master core learning ...
This textbook introduces graduate students in education and policy research to data and statistical methods in state-level higher education policy analysis. It also serves as a methodological guide to students, practitioners, and researchers who want a clear approach to conducting higher education policy analysis that involves the use of institutional- and state-level secondary data and quantitative methods ranging from descriptive to advanced statistical techniques. This book is unique in that it introduces readers to various types of data sources and quantitative methods utilized in policy research and in that it demonstrates how results of statistical analyses should be presented to higher education policy makers. It helps to bridge the gap between researchers, policy makers, and practitioners both within education policy and between other fields. Coverage includes identifying pertinent data sources, the creation and management of customized data sets, teaching beginning and advanced statistical methods and analyses, and the presentation of analyses for different audiences (including higher education policy makers).
Chapter 5 discusses the importance of getting to “know thy data” even before doing any kind of data analysis. Because many higher education policy analysts and researchers import data from other sources, it is important to “clean” and ...
The work of Michel Foucault has become a major resource for educational researchers seeking to understand how education makes us what we are. In this book, a group of contributors explore how Foucault’s work is used in a variety of ways to explore the ‘hows’ and ‘whos’ of education policy – its technologies and its subjectivities, its oppressions and its freedoms. The book takes full advantage of the opportunities for creativity that Foucault’s ideas and methods offer to researchers in deploying genealogy, discourse, and subjectivation as analytic devices. The collection as a whole works to makes us aware that we are freer than we think! This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy.
His main areas of interest are in sociologically informed education policy analysis and the relationships between education, education policy, and social class. He has published over 140 journal articles and written 20 books, ...
Education Policy Analysis 2005-2006 includes articles on achieving quality, equity and efficiency in higher education; the growing international market in higher education; valuing teachers; formative assessment and gender differences and mathematics: performance.
Quality assurance and the recognition of foreign diplomas: These are two crucial aspects of educational policies to promote ... students only makes sense if they are allowed entry – ideally easy entry – in order to pursue their studies.
