Sensemaking of University and District Stakeholders in Implementing a Teacher Residency Policy in Louisiana

2021 ◽  
pp. 002248712110591
Author(s):  
Yiting Chu
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Teacher Education Policy ◽  
Collective Sensemaking ◽  
Education Policy Implementation ◽  
Teacher Residency ◽  
Collaborative Implementation ◽  
Preservice Teacher Learning

A growing body of research has identified teacher residency’s potentials for improving and sustaining preservice teacher learning through a stronger district–university partnership. Drawing on sensemaking perspectives on education policy implementation, this qualitative case study examines how a variety of university and district stakeholders make sense of and implement a state-mandated teacher residency in Louisiana. Findings reveal that stakeholders are primarily making sense of the residency in isolation, leading to incoherent understandings and varied implementation practices. Opportunities to improve stakeholders’ collective sensemaking and collaborative implementation and to optimize the benefits and potentials of teacher residency partnerships are discussed. This study has implications for teacher education policy implementation and continuous inquiry into the complexities of teacher preparation.

The New Middle Management: Intermediary Organizations in Education Policy Implementation

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith I. Honig
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Intermediary Organizations ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Education Policy Implementation ◽  
Implementation Resources

Intermediary organizations have become increasingly prominent participants in education policy implementation despite limited knowledge about their distinctive functions and the conditions that constrain and enable those functions. This article addresses that research-practice gap by drawing on theories of organizational ecology and findings from a comparative case study of four intermediary organizations that helped with collaborative policy implementation in Oakland, California. I define intermediaries as organizations that operate between policymakers and implementers to affect changes in roles and practices for both parties and show that such organizations typically vary along at least five dimensions. Oakland’s intermediary organizations all provided new implementation resources—knowledge, political/social ties, and an administrative infrastructure—but faced different constraining and enabling conditions. Using insights from this strategic case study, this article begins to build theory about intermediary organizations as important participants in contemporary policy implementation.

Influencing Factors of School Physical Education Policy Implementation Based on AHP

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2902-2915
Author(s):  
Xia Liu
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Sports Policy ◽  
Organizational Mechanism ◽  
Education Policy Implementation ◽  
Physical Education Policy

Objectives: AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) is used to analyze the influencing factors of school physical education policy implementation. Methods: Based on the established hierarchical structure model of influencing factors of school physical education policy implementation, the importance of indicators in each level is compared in pairs, the judgment matrix is established step by step, the relative importance order weight of each level element is calculated, and the consistency test is carried out, and then the ranking of each level and the general ranking are obtained. Results: The results show that the principal, as the first responsible person for the implementation of school sports policy, plays a directional decisive role in the implementation of school sports policy. Organizational mechanism and funding guarantee factors are necessary conditions for the implementation of school sports policy, and school sports policy factors are a powerful driving force for the implementation of school sports policy. Conclusion: AHP provides theoretical reference for better understanding the influencing factors of school physical education policy implementation and putting forward corresponding intervention measures.

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