From Education Policy to Education Practice: Unpacking the Nexus

ISBN-13: 9783031369698 / Twarda / 2023 / 294 str.

O autorze

Tine S. Prøitz is professor in education science at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her research interests are in the fields of education policy and education practice, comparative studies, and quality work in education. Prøitz is currently the principal investigator of CLASS-Comparisons of leadership autonomy in school districts and schools and the lead of the research group SEPP – Studies of education policy and education practice.

Petter Aasen is professor in Education Science at University of South-Eastern Norway. His research interests include the relationship between society and education, education policy and education research policy, the role of research in policy-making and educational practice, and the relation between government policy and educational reforms. He is currently rector at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Wieland Wermke is professor of Special Education at Stockholm University, and professor II of Education at University of South-Eastern Norway. His research focuses on the relation of education professionalism and education policy from an international and comparative perspective.

Blurb

This open access book addresses the complex interrelations between education policy and education practice developed under new ways of governance. It illuminates the nexuses of the interrelated fields of education policy and education practice including the characteristics of these relationships.

 

The book offers a selection of cases with varied approaches to the question of how different actors and stakeholders are situated in contemporary policy and practice nexuses. The cases presented  includes theoretical and conceptual studies; historical studies; ethnographic studies; and studies combining empirical interview data and quantitative data.

 

The book shows what constitutes the contemporary nexuses in education and discusses the need to re-consider how we in education research approach policy and practice in the interface between structure and agency for the future developments in the education policy-practice nexus.