Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Offers empirical insights to the everyday practices of administrators and policy makers
- Discusses renewed perspectives on well known issues to ongoing public debates in education
- Offers examples of interrelations between policy and practice in education
Part of the book series: Policy Implications of Research in Education (PIRE, volume 15)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizations of Nexuses of Education Policy and Education Practice
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Nexus Formations in Time, Space and Place
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The Complexity of Education Nexus Studies
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Open Access
- learning outcomes
- teaching profession
- education system in Norway
- education system in Germany
- education system the USA
- education system in Scotland
- knowledge society
- contemporary education policy
- everyday settings of schools
- everyday settings of classrooms
- everyday settings of administration
- ideologies in the classroom
- social mobilisation
- education sociological concepts
- research use in educational policy
- Danish education system
- macro-policy of the formal education system
- compulsory-age education
- partnership arrangements in education
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Education Policy to Education Practice
Book Subtitle: Unpacking the Nexus
Editors: Tine S. Prøitz, Petter Aasen, Wieland Wermke
Series Title: Policy Implications of Research in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36970-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36969-8Published: 09 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36972-8Published: 09 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36970-4Published: 08 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2543-0289
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Professional & Vocational Education