International Handbook Of Educational Policy

by Bascia, Nina

• ISBN13: 9781402031892
• ISBN10: 1402031890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-16
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This Handbook is for policy researchers, analysts, academics and graduate students interested in educational policy, educational reform, educational governance and leadership, teacher quality, literacy, and workplace learning. This Handbook is the only one of its kind. It has over fifty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries and presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research. It captures many of the current dominant educational policy foci, situating current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications contained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The self-reflexivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and contrasts 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 different times and places. Sections cover the contemporary strategic emphasis on large-scale reform; substantive emphases at several levels a?? on leadership and governance, improving teacher quality and conceptualizing learning in various domains around the notion of literacies and concluding, finally, 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE
SECTION 1 LARGE-SCALE EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Amanda Datnow
Globalization and educational change: New policy worlds	3	(16)
Karen Mundy
Marketization in education: Looking back to move forward with a stronger critique	19	(34)
Amy Stuart Wells
Jennifer Jellison Holme
Multicultural education in the United States and Canada: The importance of national policies	53	(22)
Reva Joshee
Lauri Johnson
International comparative studies of education and large-scale change	75	(26)
Sarah Howie
Tjeerd Plomp
A changed policy environment for US universities	101	(14)
Elaine El-Khawas
The implications of policy decisions on practices in early childhood education	115	(18)
Barbara A. Wasik
Annemarie H. Hindman
Policy-practice connections in state standards-based reform	133	(20)
Michael S. Knapp
James L. Meadows
Informed consent? Issues in implementing and sustaining government-driven educational change	153	(20)
Louise Stoll
Gordon Stobart
School district-wide reform policies in education	173	(22)
Stephen E. Anderson
Wendy Togneri
Five key factors in supporting comprehensive school reform	195	(24)
Amanda Datnow
Leanne Foster
Elizabeth Kemper
Sue Lasky
Camille Rutherford
Michele Schmidt
Sam Stringfield
Stephanie Sutherland
Janet Thomas
SECTION 2 LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Kenneth Leithwood
Knowledge producers and policymakers: Kissing kin or squabbling siblings?	219	(20)
Karen Seashore Louis
Linkages between Federal, State and local levels in educational reform	239	(22)
Sue Lasky
Amanda Datnow
Sam Stringfield
Educational governance reforms: The uncertain role of local school boards in the the United States	261	(20)
Deborah Land
Sam Stringfield
Accountability policies and their effects	281	(14)
Bill Mulford
Parent and community involvement in schools: Policy panacea or pandemic?	295	(34)
Carl Corter
Janette Pelletier
Democratic values in bureaucratic structures: Interrogating the essential tensions	329	(22)
Leeno Luke Karumanchery
John P. Portelli
Approaches to the funding of schools and their effects on capacity	351	(20)
Daniel W. Lang
Formulaic approaches to the funding of colleges and universities	371	(22)
Daniel W. Lang
The UK policy for school leadership: Uneasy transitions	393	(28)
Christopher Day
Educational leadership in policy contexts that strive for equity	421	(18)
Carolyn Riehl
Accountable schools and the leadership they need	439	(18)
Kenneth Leithwood
The recruitment and retention of school leaders: Understanding administrator supply and demand	457	(16)
Stephen L. Jacobson
PART TWO
SECTION 3 TEACHING QUALITY
Nina Bascia
Teacher certification policy: Multiple treatment interactions on the body politic	473	(18)
Elaine Chin
Rose Asera
Retaining teachers in high-poverty schools: A policy framework	491	(16)
Karen Hunter Quartz
Kimberly Barraza-Lyons
Andrew Thomas
The cultural context of teachers' work: Policy, practice and performance	507	(20)
Marilyn Osborn
Elizabeth McNess
School improvement within a knowledge economy: Fostering professional learning from a multidimensional perspective	527	(16)
Peter Sleegers
Sanneke Bolhuis
Femke Geijsel
Teacher informal learning and teacher knowledge: Theory, practice and policy	543	(26)
Harry Smaller
No teacher left untested: historical perspectives on teacher regulation	569	(10)
Cecilia Reynolds
Teacher professional standards: A policy strategy to control, regulate or enhance the teaching profession?	579	(14)
Judyth Sachs
Triage or tapestry? Teacher unions' work in an era of systemic reform	593	(20)
Nina Bascia
SECTION 4 LITERACIES
Alister Cumming
Improving research-policy relationships: The case of literacy	613	(16)
Ben Levin
Literacies in early childhood: The interface of policy, research, and practice	629	(16)
Dorothy S. Strickland
Balanced elementary literacy instruction in the United States: A personal perspective	645	(16)
Michael Pressley
Evidence-based state literacy policy: A critical alternative	661	(16)
Allan Luke
Literacies in adolescence: An analysis of policies from the United States and Queensland, Australia	677	(18)
Katherine Schultz
Bob Fecho
Assessing literacies	695	(20)
Caroline V. Gipps
J. Joy Cumming
Literacies in families and communities	715	(20)
Kendall A. King
Nancy H. Hornberger
Literacies and media culture	735	(14)
Ursula A. Kelly
Technology and literacies: From print literacy to dialogic literacy	749	(14)
Carl Bereiter
Marlene Scardamalia
Adult literacy policy: Mind the gap	763	(16)
Nancy S. Jackson
Shaping literacy policy: From abstract ideals to accountable practices	779	(14)
David R. Olson
Literacy in developed and developing countries	793	(22)
Armin Triebel
SECTION 5 WORKPLACE LEARNING
David Livingstone
The changing nature of employment and adult learning policies: Unlocking creative forces	815	(14)
Paul Belanger
Current theories of workplace learning: A critical assessment	829	(18)
Paul Hager
Learning and work transition policies in a comparative perspective: Canada and Germany	847	(18)
Walter R. Heinz
Alison Taylor
Disjunctions in the supply of and demand for education in the labor force 1930--2003: 'Trafficking in gaps'	865	(20)
Ivar Berg
Running faster to stay in the same place? The intended and unintended consequences of Government policy for workplace learning in Britain	885	(18)
Helen Rainbird
Anne Munro
Peter Senker
Improving gender equality in work organisations by action research	903	(20)
Tapio Rissanen
Sirpa Kolehmainen
Information and communications technologies and workplace learning: The contested terrain of legislation, policies, programs and practices	923	(20)
Peter Sawchuk
Recognition of learning through work	943	(20)
Stephen Billett
Trade unions and changing practices of workers' education	963	(14)
Keith Forrester
Expanding conceptions of work and learning: Recent research and policy implications	977	(20)
David W. Livingstone
Volunteer work and learning: Hidden dimensions of labour force training	997	(26)
Daniel Schugurensky
Karsten Mundel
The other half (or more) of the story: Unpaid household and care work and lifelong learning	1023	(20)
Margrit Eichler
New forms of learning and work organization in the IT industry: A German perspective on informal learning	1043	(22)
Peter Dehnbostel
Gabriele Molzberger
Bernd Overwien
Index	1065