Education Policy and Contemporary Theory

This chapter proposes to highlight some of the emerging features of a material turn and then discusses how this turn might be taken up in education policy research. A material turn moves from the analysis of words for what they can reveal about the world, to the entanglements of words and matter and how bodies materialise and have effects. The chapter focus on the 'more than human only' located and related potentialities. Taking the human out of an assumed centre for/of educational planning and action does not preclude human consequences or concerns. Challenging anthropocentric educational assumptions is important to education policy research. Critical education policy studies work 'on' policy, focusing, in terms of enactment, at the site where education policy is 'done'; that is, in schools or other education institutions. But what education policy research can actually do, or interfere in what ways is such research ontological where research is somehow 'in', as opposed to 'on' education policy.

国内の教育政策研究動向(内外の教育政策研究動向2013,V 内外の教育政策・研究動向)

Trends in Education Policy Research in England(Trends in Education Policy Research in 2007,V Education Policy Trends and Research Trends within and outside Japan)

国内の教育政策研究動向(内外の教育政策研究動向2004,V 内外の教育政策・研究動向)

韓国における教育政策と研究の動向(内外の教育政策研究動向2008,V 内外の教育政策・研究動向)

国内の教育政策研究動向(内外の教育政策研究動向2012,V 内外の教育政策・研究動向)

Trends in Education Policy Research in China(Trends in Education Policy Research in 2005,VI Education Policy Trends and Research Trends within and outside Japan)

Objectives This study examined the educational policy research based on the theory of new institutionalism and analyzed the trend of educational policy research applying the new institutionalism perspective from 2013 to 2021 to provide the direction of future educational policy research. Methods For this purpose, 58 studies using the new institutionalism perspective were selected as the subjects of analysis through three stages of literature research method and the trends were analyzed by opening related research materials. In the first stage, the analysis criteria were selected by examining the preceding studies related to the trend of education policy research applying new institutionalism. In the second stage, the related papers were investigated with the keywords ‘new institutionalism’ and ‘education’, and then the educational policy research materials were classified according to the analysis criteria. In the third stage, each research was analyzed according to the analysis area and standards. Results As a result of the study, educational policy research applying the theory and concept of new institutionalism has been actively conducted so far, and there have been many studies using integrated analysis frameworks emphasizing interest in institutional change and the role of actors. In terms of research topics, 58 papers from 2013 to 2021 were conducted evenly in the whole of educational policy studies based on new institutionalism. In terms of research methods, educational policy research has been conducted mainly on literature research, and qualitative research has gradually increased since 2013, but the proportion of quantitative research and mixed research has been relatively low. Conclusions The new institutionalism theory can be a useful approach to analyze educational policy, and it can increase the explanation power of the theory if it is applied to the education policy research after highlighting the issues of the analysis theory by grasping the issues and limitations of the theory.

This report is the fourth of four that stem from a study of the Impact of Approved Induction

Despite the scarcity of existing literature highlighted in the previous chapter, there are a few earlier academic publications that discuss the reintroduction of Liberal Studies and initiation of MNE within the NSS academic structure. Through perusal of the Western empirical literature corresponding to educational policy analysis, this chapter attempts to conduct an exploratory study by employing a thematic review strategy (Robson in Real world research—resource for social scientists and practitioner-researchers. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2002). The reason for paying attention to such empirical studies is twofold. On the one hand, new issues are likely to be revealed from critiques of Hong Kong’s past policies related to Liberal Studies and MNE; on the other, different analytical frameworks can be critically explored with the aid of educational policy analyses from the West. This chapter is composed of three parts. The first part examines two different analytical frameworks that dissect the development of educational policy. The second part explains the scope and selection criteria of the literature affiliated with and applicable to this study in the Hong Kong context. Finally, based on a variety of assembled documents, the third part offers an in-depth review of Liberal Studies and MNE policy initiatives and failures.

This paper makes the argument that new global spatialities and new governance structures in education have important implications for how we think about education policy and do education policy analysis. This context necessitates that researchers engage in new methodologies to ensure that there is a suitable link between their research problem and the methods utilised for its investigation. To this end, I suggest that network ethnography can be conceived as a ‘threshold’ methodology; a new way of looking at social relations in changing times with attendant methodological benefits and shortcomings. Here I constitute the network ethnographer as cyberflâneur, who, like the nineteenth-century flâneur is lured by and attentive to the ‘new’, where they embrace the convergence of space and new technologies to become a well-positioned observer of contemporary policy processes. In focusing on the cyberflâneur, this paper aims to provoke debate amongst policy sociology researchers about how we can reflect on and modify our practice to ensure we are contributing to meaningful research in the twenty-first century.

This paper argues that the content, analytical approaches and institutional affiliations of authors of articles published in the latest issues of two leading educational policy studies journals provide useful insights into the contested nature of educational policy studies. The paper draws upon a selection of articles published in 2007/08 issues of two flag-ship policy journals, the UK-based Journal of Education Policy, and the US-based Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. At the same time, the article is also suggestive of how Pierre Bourdieu's analytical resources of field, habitus and capital might be used to understand the academic journal publication practices which contribute to this contestation. The paper suggests that these journals and the articles within them may be construed as valued capitals and ‘traces’ of a broader conflict over what is considered valid research within the field of educational policy studies.

El artículo, de investigación cualitativa y teórica, tiene como objetivo debatir las posibles consecuencias de una Base Nacional Curricular Común (BNCC) en la Educación Básica brasileña en el contexto de las políticas curriculares. La metodología para análisis de los documentos oficiales y discurso del Estado ha sido la dialéctica. La fundamentación teórica se basa en la teoría gramsciana, y se discute si la BNCC promueve la emancipación o representa un instrumento de regulación. Se han encontrado aparatos hegemónicos en la BNCC, pues la selección de contenidos denuncia la visión de un grupo respecto a lo que es legítimo enseñar, en un ejercicio de regulación. Los resultados indican que rescatar la praxis reflexiva en lugar de la cultura de la gerencia –propia de la concepción empresarial de la investigación en política educacional– parece condición fundamental para recuperar el valor e importancia de un intelectual que organice un proyecto emancipador.

L'objectif des auteurs de cet article est double. Il s'agit d'une part de presenter une etude exploratoire sur les tendances actuelles temoignant de l'emergence d'un nouvel activisme non gouvernemental dans le champ de l'education et d'autre part de dresser un cadre analytique afin d'evaluer l'importance de cet activisme, en elaborant des concepts bases sur les recherches ayant porte sur les nouveaux mouvements sociaux et les debats theoriques actuels a propos de la societe civile mondiale.

Philadelphia’s Children Achieving was a sweeping systemic reform initiative. Systemic reform eschews a school-byschool approach to reform and relies on coherent policy, improved coordination of resources and services, content and performance standards, decentralization of decision-making, and accountability mechanisms to transform entire school systems. Led by a dynamic superintendent and central office personnel, Children Achieving was the first attempt by an urban district to test systemic reform in practice. In 1996, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Pennsylvania and its partner, Research for Action (RFA), were charged by the Children Achieving Challenge with the evaluation of Children Achieving. Between the 1995-1996 and 2000-2001 school years, CPRE and RFA researchers interviewed hundreds of teachers, principals, parents, students, District officials, and civic leaders; sat in on meetings where the plan was designed, debated, and revised; observed its implementation in classrooms and schools; conducted two systemwide surveys of teachers; and carried out independent analyses of the District’s test results and other indicators of system performance. An outline of the research methods used by CPRE and RFA is included in this report. Disciplines Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Methods | Education Policy | Urban Education | Urban Studies and Planning Comments View on the CPRE website. This report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/cpre_researchreports/27 Civic Engagement and Urban School Improvement: Hard-to-Learn Lessons from Philadelphia Jolley Bruce Christman, Research for Action Amy Rhodes, Research for Action