Nina Bascia / Alister Cumming / Amanda Datnow / Kenneth Leithwood / David Livingstone (eds.)

International Handbook of Educational Policy

Ed. by Nina Bascia et al.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

Produktdetails

• Springer International Handbooks of Education 13
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• 2005
• Seitenzahl: 1172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 74mm
• Gewicht: 2430g
• ISBN-13: 9781402031892
• ISBN-10: 1402031890
• Artikelnr.: 21463743

Autorenporträt

Nina Bascia, University of Toronto, ON, Canada / Alister Cumming, University of Toronto, ON, Canada / Amanda Datnow, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA / Kenneth Leithwood, University of Toronto, ON, Canada / David Livingstone, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
Acknowledgment.- Introduction.- Section I. Large-Scale Reform.- Section II. Leadership And Governance.- Section III. Teaching Quality.- Section IV. Literacies.- Section V. Workplace Learning.- Index.