Informed Dialogue

by Reimers, Fernando; McGinn, Noel F.

• ISBN13: 9780275954420
• ISBN10: 0275954420
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-30
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

The authors of this book explain how decisions about education and educational policymaking can be informed by research-based knowledge. They develop a framework to organize three approaches, which are: policy dialogue as persuasion, policy dialogue as negotiation, and policy dialogue as participation and organizational learning. The book includes a nine-stage model for how best to employ research to influence this type of learning using a participatory approach. A current review of literature in research utilization in education is also discussed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xiii
Part I Concepts and Issues
Research Utilization: Why It Is Important, Why It Is an Issue, Why It Is Difficult	3	(26)
What Do We Mean by Informed Policy Making?	29	(14)
Why Education Policies Are So Difficult to Inform	43	(28)
Part II Approaches to Informing Policy for Education
Utilization as Using Precooked Conclusions	71	(12)
Utilization Stimulated by Providing Decision Makers with Data	83	(24)
Informing Policy by Constructing Knowledge	107	(20)
Part III Case Studies of Use of Information in Policy Making
The Etosha Conference in Namibia	127	(4)
Conducting an Education Sector Assessment in Egypt	131	(14)
Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Honduras	145	(8)
Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Colombia	153	(6)
Conducting a Participatory Sector Assessment in El Salvador	159	(8)
Policy Dialogue as Organizational Learning in Paraguay	167	(10)
Part IV Fitting It All Together
A Model to Inform Policy with Research-Based Knowledge	177	(14)
References	191	(10)
Index	201