New Directions in Education Policy Implementation

by Honig, Meredith I.

• ISBN13: 9780791468203
• ISBN10: 0791468208
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-24
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BOOKS

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
1. Complexity and Policy Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field	1	(24)
Meredith I. Honig
2. Communities of Practice Theory and the Role of Teacher Professional Community in Policy Implementation	25	(22)
Cynthia E. Coburn and Mary Kay Stein
3. Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, and Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation	47	(18)
James P. Spillane, Brian Reiser, and Louis M Gomez
4. Language Matters: How Characteristics of Language Complicate Policy Implementation	65	(18)
Heather C. Hill
5. Revisiting Policy Implementation as a Political. Phenomenon: The Case of Reconstitution Policies	83	(22)
Betty Malen
6. Connections in the Policy Chain: The "Co-construction" of Implementation in Comprehensive School Reform	105	(20)
Amanda Datnow
7. Building Policy from Practice: Implementation as Organizational Learning	125	(24)
Meredith I. Honig
8. Toward a Critical Approach to Education Policy Implementation: Implications for the (Battle)Field	149	(20)
Michael J. Dumas and Jean Avon
9. An Economic Approach to Education Policy Implementation	169	(18)
Susanna Loeb and Patrick J. McEwan
10. Social. Capital and the Problem of Implementation	187	(22)
Mark A. Smylie and Andrea E. Evans
11. Implementation Research in Education: Lessons Learned, Lingering Questions and New Opportunities	209	(20)
Milbrey W. McLaughlin
Bibliography	229	(42)
Contributors	271	(6)
Author Index	277	(8)
Subject Index	285