Research Catalog

Title

Knowledge in policy : embodied, inscribed, enacted / [edited by] Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy.

Publication

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA : Policy Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Freeman, Richard
• Sturdy, Steve
• Freeman, Richard.
• Sturdy, Steve.
• Freeman, Richard (Professor of Social Science and Public Policy)

Description

xi, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

'Knowledge in Policy' presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in policy making in Europe, one that pays particular attention to the different forms that knowledge can take. Knowledge is embodied in people, inscribed in documents and instruments, and enacted in specific circumstances. Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy gather empirical case studies of health and education policies in different contexts that demonstrate the essential interdependence of these different forms of knowledge. In doing so, they illustrate the ways in which knowledge is mobilized and resisted, drawing attention to key problems in the processing and transformation of knowledge in policy work.

Subject

• Political planning > European Union countries
• Policy sciences
• Knowledge management
• Wissen
• Gesundheitspolitik
• Bildungspolitik
• Politische Entscheidung
• Politikfeldanalyse
• Staatstätigkeit
• Political planning
• Policy sciences > Europe
• Medical policy > Europe
• Education and state > Europe
• Europa
• European Union countries

Note

• "This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on the different forms that knowledge takes."--Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Seeing knowledge in mental health in Scotland / Jennifer Smith-Merry -- Knowlege moves: regulation and the evaluation of Portuguese schools / Natércio Afonso and Estela Costa -- Knowledge, policy, and coordinated action: mental health in Europe / Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy -- 'We know who to talk to: embodied knowledge in England's Department of Health / Jo Maybin -- Reconstructing school inspectorates in Europe: the role of inscribed knowledge / Sotiria Grek -- Enacting knowledge in a European project / Maria José dos Santos Freitas -- Knowledge interests: promoting and resisting change in mental health in Hungary / Bori Fernezelyi and Gábor Eröss -- Knowledge conflicts: embodiment, inscription, and the education of children with learning disabilities in Germany / Alma Demszky -- Knowledge work: organising mental health care networks in Belgium / Sophie Thunus, Gaëtan Cerfontaine and Frédéric Schoenaers -- Knowledge and policy in research and practice / Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy.

ISBN

• 9781447309987
• 1447309987

OCLC

• 859583878
• SCSB-11246575

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library