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International Handbook of Educational Policy Volume 13 by Nina Bascia (editor), Alister Cumming (editor), Amanda Datnow (editor), Kenneth Leithwood (editor), David Livingstone (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 emphase

Who reads International Handbook of Educational Policy Volume 13?

Author

Nina Bascia (editor), Alister Cumming (editor), Amanda Datnow (editor), Kenneth Leithwood (editor), David Livingstone (editor)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9789400789296

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Philosophy, Management