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Han, Shuangmiao; Ye, Fugui – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
Policy network approach has become a broadly accepted and frequently adopted practice in modern state governance, especially in the public sector. The study utilises a broadly defined policy network conceptual frame and categories of reference to trace the evolution of education policy-making in China. The study uses "The Outline of China's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Networks
Levin, Elisheva H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Understanding how ASD policy is made at the state level is important to the various institutional and individual stakeholders who make, apply, and are governed by it. Critical disability theory was applied to this qualitative study of ASD policymaking in New Mexico. This study examined how policymakers and stakeholders brought their identities,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Educational Policy, Public Policy
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Karlsson, Leena Eklund; Jakobsen, Mette Winge; Winblad, Malin; Aro, Arja R. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
Collaboration between research and policy is an essential element for knowledge-based public health. However, only half of the Danish municipalities have experience with collaborating with researchers or other stakeholders. Through content analysis of interviews and policy documents the study explores the involvement of external stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Researchers, Content Analysis
Williams, Christopher Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Gun violence on college campuses has gained the attention of campus leaders, leading to an active shooter policy and procedure development and implementation. There was little awareness within the campus leadership of a college in the Southeast United States on the college's active shooter policy and procedures. Guided by Coomb's crisis management…
Descriptors: College Students, Weapons, Violence, Crisis Management
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Copeland, Kristopher D.; Mamiseishvili, Ketevan – Educational Policy, 2017
State lottery policies have been created to generate additional funds to support public initiatives, such as higher education scholarships. Through 18 participant interviews and document analysis, this study examined how decision makers in Arkansas socially constructed citizens while forming lottery policy. The social construction of target…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Educational Policy, Interviews, Decision Making
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Bynner, John – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This paper relates most closely to David Raffe's writing on "policy borrowing" across countries and across time and his illumination for policy purposes of transition concepts such as "pathways". The discussion makes the point that concepts can both illuminate empirical reality as well as distort it. The paper then moves on to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Education Work Relationship, Comparative Education
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Piazza, Peter – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This paper explores changes to the educational policy-making arena through case study analysis of a Massachusetts law passed in 2012 that limits seniority-based job protections for public K-12 teachers. I use data from interviews with policy stakeholders, observations of public meetings, and policy artifacts to explore struggles over democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Case Studies
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Marshall, Catherine; Tichnor-Wagner, Ariel; Johnson, Mark – Peabody Journal of Education, 2017
A barrage of pro-privatization policies that cascaded into North Carolina education statutes during the 2013-2014 legislative session helped spark a series of organized protests known as the Moral Monday Movement. Powerful and strategic policy networks, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), have made privatization and…
Descriptors: Public Education, Activism, Educational Change, Resistance to Change
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Kauko, Jaakko; Salokangas, Maija – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
The article analyses the redefinition and distribution of powers between central governance and local actors in English independent state-funded schooling. Earlier research on governance confirms the importance of the local and the school level in reshaping national-level reforms and steering policies. The research draws on data from interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Governance, Educational Innovation
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Mackintosh, Chris; Liddle, Joyce – Education 3-13, 2015
International interest in developing mass sports participation through systems of school and community sports development has become a growing field of public leisure policy interest. This research paper considers the policy change from School Sport Partnerships to the new 2012 School Games model of networked partnerships to establish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Public Policy, Educational Change
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Landri, Paolo – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
By drawing on sociomaterial approaches to education, this paper presents a case study on the creation, development and consolidation of the education zone, a new policy space in South Italy. The topological reading of the case study reveals the complex reassemblage of humans and non-humans in the enactment of the education zones, and its multiple…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Stahelin, Nicolas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research is a qualitative case study of global and national (Brazilian) Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) policies in historical perspectives. My overall objectives are two-fold: First, to understand how global ESE policy frameworks have evolved ideologically over time--a concept I refer to as ESE policy trajectories; and…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Crawford, Emily R. – Education and Urban Society, 2018
This case study focuses on a 2008 incident where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vans appeared near a K-5 elementary school. It was the first time school personnel experienced the impact of federal immigration agents policing illegality in their school community, and the event set off a chain of decision-making choices as to how…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Law Enforcement, Undocumented Immigrants, Principals
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Wilkinson, Dana Cavender – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
Despite Northern Ireland's deeply rooted religious history and the assumption that its citizens' sexual attitudes and behaviours are more reserved than their English counterparts, comprehensive school-based relationships and sexuality education (RSE) has been statutory for primary and post-primary pupils since 2007. The non-biological aspects of…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries
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Jones, Tiffany – Educational Policy, 2016
The case study is an analysis of a state performance funding policy at a public historically Black college and university (HBCU). The policy attaches state funding to HBCU performance on measures like graduation rates and equity measures like the reduction in achievement gaps between Black and non-Black students. Participants liked that the policy…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Colleges, Black Colleges, Educational Finance
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