New Directions in Education Policy Implementation

Confronting Complexity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of contemporary research in education policy implementation.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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Utgivningsdatum:2006-07-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791468197

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Meredith I. Honig is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle.

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Acknowledgments 1. Complexity and Policy Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for the FieldMeredith I. Honig 2. Communities of Practice Theory and the Role of Teacher Professional Community in Policy ImplementationCynthia E. Coburn and Mary Kay Stein 3. Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, and Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy ImplementationJames P. Spillane, Brian Reiser, and Louis M. Gomez 4. Language Matters: How Characteristics of Language Complicate Policy ImplementationHeather C. Hill 5. Revisiting Policy Implementation as a Political Phenomenon: The Case of Reconstitution PoliciesBetty Malen 6. Connections in the Policy Chain: The "Co-construction" of Implementation in Comprehensive School ReformAmanda Datnow 7. Building Policy from Practice: Implementation as Organizational LearningMeredith I. Honig 8. Toward a Critical Approach to Education Policy Implementation: Implications for the (Battle)FieldMichael J. Dumas and Jean Anyon 9. An Economic Approach to Education Policy ImplementationSusanna Loeb and Patrick J. McEwan 10. Social Capital and the Problem of ImplementationMark A. Smylie and Andrea E. Evans 11. Implementation Research in Education: Lessons Learned, Lingering Questions, and New OpportunitiesMilbrey W. McLaughlin BibliographyContributorsIndex