Full Description
This book brings an eclectic mix of contributors from around the world together to share important insights about policy advice and policy making in education— to give readers a better sense of what policy creation can entail, and who might be and how they might be involved. Coming from a range of jurisdictions, the chapters in this book have been authored by people with important insights to share from their experiences of doing and researching policy advice and policy making in education: civil servants, consultants, knowledge mobilizers, school staff, and university-based researchers and teacher educators.
While many chapters focus on policy advice and policy making at national and subnational levels, others challenge the common (mis)perception that policy making is confined to governments. Thus, there are chapters that illustrate that education policy is produced in education institutions such as schools too. Moreover, other chapters highlight how intermediary bodies and higher education academics are shaping education policy at various levels.
Taken together the chapters in Advising on and Making Education Policy: New Perspectives on Past and Present Procedures reveal some of the inner workings of government departments, exemplify educators, students and parents as policy makers, and highlight how there are a wide range of additional groups and individuals having influence and impact in the policy ecosystem.
Contents
Foreword Sonia Exley
Studying Policy Advice and Policy Making in Education: An Introduction Craig Skerritt
Part 1: Accounts from Inside the Government
1. Higher Education Policy Making in Practice in Wales in a Wider UK Context: A View Based on Personal Experiences between 2013 and 2023 Huw Morris
2. How the Indian Government Is Spearheading India's Education Reform Agenda: A View from Inside the Indian Ministry of Education Rashi Sharma and Purabi Pattanayak
3. Building Ofsted's Research Function: Reflections from Current Staff Verena Braehler, Alex Jones, Gill Churchill and Alan Passingham
Part 2: Researchers Making Policy and Researching Policy Making
4. Policy Advice and Devolved Education Policy Making in Wales: An Adviser's Account David Egan
5. From Research Briefing to National Guidance: Influencing School Uniform and Clothing Policy in Scotland Rachel Shanks
6. The Transforming Education Project: Research Impact and Setting the Direction for Policy Change in Northern Ireland Stephen Roulston and Matt Milliken
7. Making Sense of Policy Making: A Study of Education Ministers' Perspectives on Strategies for Successful Reform Adam Barton
Part 3: Policy Advice Mechanisms for Policy Making
8. Knowledge Mobilization in Education: The Connective Tissue Supporting the Research-Policy Interface John O'Connor
9. Developing, Managing and Growing a Research Organization: The Education Policy Institute Jon Andrews
10. Integrating Independent Expert Advice into EU Policy Making for Science Education: Reflecting on the Work and Progress of ALLEA - The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities Cliona Murphy and Mathijs Vleugel
11. Expert Policy Advice in Germany: The Standing Scientific Commission on Education Policy Christine Becks, Susanne Farwick and Isabell van Ackeren-Mindl
12. Supporting Schools to Spend the Pupil Premium: Reflections from the Education Endowment Foundation's Work Harry Madgwick and Nick Worsley
Part 4: Educators, Students and Parents as Policy Makers
13. Teachers at the Policy-Making Table: Bridging Classroom Realities and Policy Decisions Nancy Watkins
14. (Re)positioning Teacher Educators as Policy Makers Who Span across Policy Making Spaces Cameron Van der Smee, Dylan Scanlon, Jacqui Peters, Trent D. Brown and Joanne Henriksen
15. Including Students in Policy Making: The Perspective of a Post-Primary School Principal Helen McTighe
16. Involving Parents in the Development of a School Literacy Policy in a Designated Disadvantaged Primary School in Ireland: A First- Hand Account from a Deputy Principal Ciara Barry
