scholarly journals Chinese Educational Policy Research: The Arduous Formation of a Research Paradigm

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-560
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Lin
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rational Organization

Purpose: Through combing the 40 years’ history of the development of Chinese educational policy research, this article attempts to sort out the efforts and lessons learned by researchers in the field of education policy in China. Design/Approach/Methods: As one of the earliest scholars engaged in the study of Chinese education policy, based on the academic publications, symposia, and thematic research, the author has found efforts in four directions in the field: proposals for policy-oriented research and research-oriented policy, disciplinization-based endeavors, empirical research on theory-guided educational policy, and guidance on major educational policy research topics and a think tank for educational policy decisions. Findings: This article argues that there is now a correspondence among the ideas, themes, forms, and frameworks of the educational reform promulgated by the government in recent years that have appeared in educational policy research, but there is no clear demarcation of what makes an educational policy researcher; no stable academic community has been formed that might strive together toward the foundation of a disciplinary paradigm, the rational organization of academic ideas, and the establishment and handing over of a theoretical framework to a succeeding generation. Originality/Value: This article takes a step back to claim that a paradigm for Chinese educational policy research is still nascent in the arduous process of formulation.

scholarly journals The Role of Place, Geography, and Geographic Information Systems in Educational Research

AERA Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 233285841986934
Author(s):  
Bryan Mann ◽  
Andrew Saultz
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Geographic Thinking

Despite the strong relationship between geography and education policy, educational research tends to draw from other fields of inquiry such as economics, political science, and history. This special topics collection centers the usefulness of geography and place in educational policy research. The introduction explains the rationale for the collection and discusses the themes and articles in the collection. We conclude with a call for researchers, policy makers, and colleges of education to enhance their capacity in incorporating geographic thinking into educational policy research.

scholarly journals Use of Incremental Model in Analyzing Bangladesh Education Policy 2010

2022 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nusrat Jahan Arefin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
National Education ◽  
Incremental Model ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Government

Education is one of the essential components in developing a scholarly society capable of facing the demands and challenges of the twenty-first century. Education policy refers to the principles of government policymaking in the educational sector and the set of laws and norms that govern the operation of the educational system. It focuses on the effects of educational policy decisions and alternatives in the real world. It investigates the link between educational policy and practice. Even though our educational system has shortcomings, we are improving daily. Bangladesh is fully committed to the EFA goals, the Millennium Development Goals, and universal declarations. Every child between the ages of six and eighteen is entitled to free education under Article seventeen of the Bangladesh Constitution. As a result, the "National Education Policy 2010" was created using the incremental model of one of the most used public policy frameworks. The government makes incremental public policy decisions based on earlier actions. All of the model's functions are divided into distinct groups. Our educational system underwent significant changes over a long period. The incremental model's important aspects are time progression and social demand.

scholarly journals The evolution of advocacy in the Ontario immigrant settlement sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kaminsky
Keyword(s):  
Policy Research ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Third ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

This major research paper examines the way the Ontario immigrant settlement sector provides advocacy on behalf of newcomers. It sets out to answer three general questions: How does the sector interact with government? How does it maintain its role as advocate while under significant strain? Is the relationship between the state and the third sector underdoing change, and if so, what new opportunities for advocacy are arising? Through a comprehensive literature review and four key informant interviews, this paper discusses the history of the sector and three new developments, namely the Voluntary Sector Initiative, the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement and the formation of the Canadian Immigrant Settlement Sector Alliance. Recent developments indicate that the government and the third sector are beginning to work towards a system of shared governance where the third sector is a partner in policy research, development and implementation.

Port Hope Area Initiative

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brown ◽  
David McCauley
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Term Management

The Port Hope Area Initiative involves a process that will lead to the cleanup of low-level radioactive wastes in two communities in Southern Ontario and the construction of three new long-term waste management facilities in those communities. The history of the Initiative provides important insights into local participation and the successes and failures of siting efforts. The wastes resulted from the operations of an industrial process in Port Hope that began in the 1930s. Initially, wastes (contaminated with radium, uranium, and arsenic) from radium processing were deposited in a relatively uncontrolled manner at various locations within the town. By the 1940s, uranium processing wastes were deposited at nearby purpose-built radioactive waste management facilities. The problem of contamination was first recognized in 1974 and the worst cases quickly cleaned up. However, large volumes of contamination remained in the community. There were three successive efforts to develop an approach to deal with the area’s contamination. In the early to mid 1980s, a standard approach was employed; i.e. indentifying the most technically appropriate local site for a disposal facility, proceeding to evaluate that site, and communicating the benefits of the chosen approach to the local community. That approach was resoundingly rejected by local citizens and government representatives. The second effort, an innovative and consultative voluntary siting effort carried out during the late-1980s and early to mid-1990s involved the solicitation of other municipalities to volunteer to host a facility for the disposal of the Port Hope areas wastes. That effort resulted in the identification of a single volunteer community. However, negotiations between the federal government and the municipality were unable to reach an acceptable agreement establishing the conditions for the community to host the waste management facility. The third effort, a community-driven approach, was undertaken in the late-1990s and resulted in an agreement in 2001 between the Government of Canada and the local communities that sets in motion a process for the cleanup of the local wastes and long-term management in new local waste management facilities. This paper provides insights into the history of the problem, the efforts of the federal government over the last two decades to deal with the issue, how local participation and decision-making processes affected the successes of the various siting approaches, and lessons learned that might be of interest to others who must deal with environmental remediation situations that involve siting long-term management facilities.

History of Educational Administration in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Bush
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
School Site ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

The study of educational administration in the United Kingdom began in a limited way in the 1970s, but it became much more significant following the 1988 Education Reform Act, which gave substantial powers to principals and school governing bodies. This led the scope of leadership and administration to be greatly expanded to include management of finance, staff, pupil admissions, and the school site as well as their traditional roles as instructional leaders. Provision for public education was disaggregated from 1999, when education devolved to assemblies in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as part of the government’s devolution agenda. In England, the government established the National College for School Leadership in 2000, which had a major impact on policy, research, and practice for the next decade, before its decline starting in 2013 and its eventual closure in 2016. School leadership preparation is now at a crossroads, within an increasingly fragmented school system and without the national voice that the College provided.

scholarly journals Applying the Integration Dimensions of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Education Policy Research: Lessons Learned From Investigating Micro Policymaking in Norwegian Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110283
Author(s):  
Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
School Level ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
And Control ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Qualitative research methods have been predominantly used to understand the complex phenomenon of educational policy enactment at the school level. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by applying three dimensions of integration—rationale, study purpose, and research design—to the study of micro-policymaking in schools. By examining these three dimensions, this article contributes to the limited body of mixed-methods models in this field. The findings show that the mixed methods approach provides unique insights into education policy scholarship, thus broadening the understanding of the relations and purposes of accountability and control in education.

POINT/CounterPOINT: The View from the Trenches of Education Policy Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Ballou ◽  
Matthew G. Springer ◽  
Daniel F. McCaffrey ◽  
J. R. Lockwood ◽  
Brian M. Stecher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Teaching Point

The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) was a three-year study testing the hypothesis that rewarding teachers for improved student scores on standardized tests would cause scores to rise. Results, as described in Springer et al. (2010b), did not confirm this hypothesis. In this article we provide additional information on the POINT study that may be of particular interest to researchers contemplating their own studies of similar policies. Our discussion focuses on the policy environment in which POINT was launched, considerations that affected the design of POINT, and a variety of lessons learned from the implementation of the experiment.

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