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New directions in education policy implementation : confronting complexity

Title
New directions in education policy implementation : confronting complexity / [edited by] Meredith I. Honig.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.

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Honig, Meredith I., 1971-
Description
ix, 289 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
A companion to Allan R. Odden's Education Policy Implementation, also published by SUNY Press, this book presents original work by a new generation of scholars contributing to education policy implementation research. The contributors define education policy implementation as the product of the interaction among particular policies, people, and places. Their analyses of previous generations of implementation research reveal that contemporary findings not only build directly on lessons learned from the past, but also seek to deepen past findings. These contemporary researchers also break from the past by seeking a more nuanced, contingent, and rigorous theory-based explication of how implementation unfolds. They argue that researchers and practitioners can help improve education policy implementation by not asking simply what works, but rather focusing their attention on what works, for whom, where, when, and why.
Subject
  • School improvement programs > United States
  • Educational change > United States
  • Educational leadership > United States
  • Educational change
  • Educational leadership
  • School improvement programs
  • Schulentwicklung
  • Schulleitung
  • Schulreform
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-270) and indexes.
Contents
1. Complexity and Policy Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field / Meredith I. Honig -- 2. Communities of Practice Theory and the Role of Teacher Professional Community in Policy Implementation / Cynthia E. Coburn & Mary Kay Stein -- 3. Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, & Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation / James P. Spillane, Brian Reiser, & Louis Gomez -- 4. Language Matters: How Characteristics of Language Complicate Policy Implementation / Heather Hill -- 5. Revisiting Policy Implementation as a Political Phenomenon: The Case of Reconstitution Policies / Betty L. Malen -- 6. Connections in the Policy Chain: The "Co-construction" of Implementation in Comprehensive School Reform / Amanda Datnow -- Building Policy from Practice: Implementation as Organizational Learning / Meredith I. Honig -- 8. Toward a Critical Approach to Education Policy Implementation: Implications for the Battle)field / Michael Dumas & Jean Anyon -- 9. An Economic Approach to Education Policy Implementation / Susanna Loeb & Patrick McEwan -- 10. Social Capital and the Problem of Implementation / Mark A. Smylie & Andrea E. Evans -- 11. Implementation Research in Education: Lessons Learned, Lingering Questions and New Opportunities / Milbrey W. McLaughlin.
ISBN
  • 0791468194
  • 0791468208
  • 9780791468197
  • 9780791468203
LCCN
  • 2005024130
  • 9780791468197
  • 9780791468203
OCLC
  • ocm61303475
  • 61303475
  • SCSB-8905087
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library