Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research

ISBN-13: 9781032606477 / Twarda / 2024 / 128 str.

Opis

This book places a focus on educational ecosystems – that is, understanding the complex nature of educational experiences and promoting a coordinated set of policy and practice solutions to address interrelated problems that manifest in school and student outcomes.

Spis treści

Introduction: Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research  1. Well-Being and Equity: A Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Rethinking Education Policy  2. Does Parental Involvement Change After Schools Assign Students an IEP?  3. Homelessness and School Choice: Examining the School Choice Experiences of Families Living in Shelter  4. Examining the English Learner Policy Ecology: How Educators Navigated the Provision of Designated English Language Development (ELD) Support at the Secondary Level  5. Open Enrollment and Disrupting the Political Ecology of U.S. Public Education  6. Coordinating the Mesosystem: An Ecological Approach to Addressing Chronic Absenteeism  7. Promoting Ecological Approaches to Educational Issues: Evidence from a Partnership around Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit  8. Beyond the School Walls: Collective Impact in Micropolitan School-Community Partnerships  9. An Application of the Social-ecological Systems Framework to Promoting Evidence-informed Policy and Practice  Concluding Note on Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research

O autorze

Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Ph.D., is the Leonard Kaplan Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Wayne State University, USA. She is the director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research.

Jeremy Singer, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate with the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University, USA, and a research affiliate of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research. He formerly taught in the Detroit Public Schools.

Michael Gottfried, Ph.D., is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research focuses on education policy and the economics of education.