Educational reform in China: tensions in national policy and local practice

AbstractIn this paper, I explore the dynamics of an educational reform aimed at transforming individual and collective attitudes towards school among Gypsy/Roma families living in urban spaces of advanced social marginality. In Perpignan, Gypsy/Roma people are highly marginalized, living in a deprived urban environment (violence, unemployment, poor housing conditions, female-headed households, problematic night life) and following their cultural and customary rules and values. These play a crucial role in weak school performance. In 2005, city riots pushed municipal, community, and educational stakeholders to act. Policymakers implemented an experimental national policy in Perpignan from 2007 to 2015, in which they treated education as the cornerstone of necessary change. This public policy opened schools to their social and ethnic environment, as socioenvironmental settings were utilized as a performative tool for school achievement and success.

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Gender and forests in Nicaragua’s indigenous territories: From national policy to local practice

10.17528/cifor/003891 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Mairena E. ◽

Lorio G. ◽

Hernández X. ◽

Wilson C. ◽

Müller P. ◽

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Keyword(s):

National Policy ◽

Local Practice ◽

Indigenous Territories

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National policy in local practice: the case of Rwanda

Third World Quarterly ◽

10.1080/01436597.2015.1030386 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 36 (5) ◽

pp. 950-966 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Malin Hasselskog ◽

Isabell Schierenbeck

Keyword(s):

National Policy ◽

Local Practice

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Adult higher education in the Netherlands: National policy and local practice

Higher Education ◽

10.1007/bf00137214 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 279-297

Author(s):

Geert W. M. Stevens ◽

Elisabeth G. M. Nuyten-Edelbroek ◽

Jos L. Van Emmerik

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

The Netherlands ◽

National Policy ◽

Local Practice ◽

Adult Higher Education

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From national policy to local practice

Improve your Primary School Through Drama ◽

10.4324/9780203445693-7 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 24-42

Keyword(s):

National Policy ◽

Local Practice

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Supporting Personalisation: The Challenges in Translating the Expectations of National Policy into Developments in Local Services and Their Underpinning Information Systems

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s147474641400013x ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 593-607 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Penelope Hill

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Business Processes ◽

Social Care ◽

National Policy ◽

Structuration Theory ◽

Information Services ◽

Front Line ◽

Care Policy ◽

Local Practice ◽

Local Perspectives

Social care policy is actively promoting integrated and personalised care. Local organisations are starting to re-engineer their business processes, review front line practice, develop new operational tools and revise their information systems to support and deliver these new approaches. This article draws on a study undertaken in one local organisation as it began to implement its response to these expectations. It uses structuration theory to explore how the macro agendas described by policy and legislation are translated into local perspectives and then further refracted through the lens of operational practice, shaping the business tools which deliver the change. The evidence suggests that there needs to be a better understanding of how the expectations of policy are interpreted – and potentially distorted – through their translation into local practice, and of the role that information and information services play in enabling, or disabling the delivery of those expectations at the front line.

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The Rise of Supplementary Education in Sweden: Arguments, Thought Styles, and Policy Enactment

ECNU Review of Education ◽

10.1177/2096531120952096 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 209653112095209 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stina Hallsén

Keyword(s):

National Policy ◽

Theory Development ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

The Political ◽

Private Companies ◽

Supplementary Education ◽

Local Practice ◽

Policy Enactment ◽

Thought Styles

Purpose: This article focuses on the development of supplementary education, evolving under the label “homework support,” in Sweden between 2006 and 2018. Particular attention is paid to the significance of the private market for national policy. Design/Approach/Methods: Through a theoretical model on policy enactment, the interaction between national policy and local practice is highlighted. By analyzing how the local practice appears in documents related to state-regulated decision-making, the study gains further insights in the development of homework support in Sweden. Findings: This article argues that when private companies, offering supplementary tutoring, were established on the outskirts of the educational landscape in Sweden, the political educational discourse changed. Even though homework support became a given part of the political discussion about the school, the situation became difficult for private companies. Originality/Value: The article adds to the international field of shadow education. It describes the establishment of the private tutoring market’s entry into the Swedish educational landscape, which in the long term has provided a basis for a further Scandinavian development. Furthermore, the article contributes to theory development by a model that focuses on the interaction between policy formulation and local enactment.

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Administering Welfare Reform

10.46692/9781847421531 ◽

2006 ◽

Keyword(s):

Welfare Reform ◽

Health Inequalities ◽

National Policy ◽

Local Practice ◽

Policy Context ◽

What Works

This authoritative yet accessible book identifies the key targets for intervention through a detailed exploration of pathways and processes that give rise to health inequalities. It sets this against an examination of both local practice and the national policy context, to establish what works in health inequalities policy, how and why.

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