New directions in education policy implementation : confronting complexity / [edited by] Meredith I. Honig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Honig, Meredith I., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Educational leadership--United States.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]

Summary:

A companion to Allan R. Odden's Education Policy Implementation, also published by SUNY Press, this book presents original work by a new generation of scholars contributing to education policy implementation research. The contributors define education policy implementation as the product of the interaction among particular policies, people, and places. Their analyses of previous generations of implementation research reveal that contemporary findings not only build directly on lessons learned from the past, but also seek to deepen past findings. These contemporary researchers also break from the past by seeking a more nuanced, contingent, and rigorous theory-based explication of how implementation unfolds. They argue that researchers and practitioners can help improve education policy implementation by not asking simply what works, but rather focusing their attention on what works, for whom, where, when, and why.

Contents:

1 Complexity and Policy Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field / Meredith I. Honig 1

2 Communities of Practice Theory and the Role of Teacher Professional Community in Policy Implementation / Cynthia E. Coburn, Mary Kay Stein 25

3 Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, and Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation / James P. Spillane, Brian J. Reiser, Louis M. Gomez 47

4 Language Matters: How Characteristics of Language Complicate Policy Implementation / Heather C. Hill 65

5 Revisiting Policy Implementation as a Political Phenomenon: The Case of Reconstitution Policies / Betty Malen 83

6 Connections in the Policy Chain: The "Co-construction" of Implementation in Comprehensive School Reform / Amanda Datnow 105

7 Building Policy from Practice: Implementation as Organizational Learning / Meredith I. Honig 125

8 Toward a Critical Approach to Education Policy Implementation: Implications for the (Battle)Field / Michael J. Dumas, Jean Anyon 149

9 An Economic Approach to Education Policy Implementation / Susanna Loeb, Patrick J. McEwan 169

10 Social Capital and the Problem of Implementation / Mark A. Smylie, Andrea E. Evans 187

11 Implementation Research in Education: Lessons Learned, Lingering Questions and New Opportunities / Milbrey W. McLaughlin 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-270) and indexes.

ISBN:

0791468194

0791468208

OCLC:

61303475

Publisher Number:

9780791468197

9780791468203