International Handbook of Educational Policy

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.

Cuprins

• 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
• 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: iii
• Multiple treatment interactions: 473
• A policy framework: 491
• Policy practice: 507
• Fostering: 527
• historical perspectives on teacher: 569
• 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
• 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: 1064

Despre autor

One of the most remarkable explorers of the nineteenth century, Livingstone sought first as a missionary and devout Christian to end the slave trade in Africa and then to locate the source of the Nile. In these attempts, he lost his wife, who caught a fever on an expedition in which she joined him. He discovered Victoria Falls and the lands between Nyasa and Tanganyika, encountering other hardships and tragedies in his double quest. He was apparently much beloved by Africans who knew him. He never abated in his efforts on their behalf. His association with Sir Henry Morton Stanley is well known. The latter had been sent to find him by an American newspaper when Livingstone was feared lost. The formal approach of Stanley's first remark on finding him in a remote African village, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," amused the world, and the greeting became a byword. Stanley was with Livingstone in northern Tanganyika when the latter died. "Missionary Travels" (1857) is essentially the contemporary record of Livingstone's two journeys to northwestern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1851-1853.

Informații bibliografice

• Titlu: International Handbook of Educational Policy; Volumul 13 din Springer International Handbooks of Education
• Editori: Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood, David Livingstone
• Ediție: ilustrată
• Editor: Springer Science & Business Media, 2008
• ISBN: 1402032013, 9781402032011
• Lungime: 1116 pagini