Informed Dialogue: Using Research to Shape Education Policy Around the World
The authors of this book explain how decisions about education and educational policymaking can be informed by research-based knowledge. They develop a framework to organize three approaches, which are: policy dialogue as persuasion, policy dialogue as negotiation, and policy dialogue as participation and organizational learning. The book includes a nine-stage model for how best to employ research to influence this type of learning using a participatory approach. A current review of...
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A discussion of educational change and the role of knowledge and research in influencing such change. Booknews Harvard researchers explore the process by which research in education can be integrated into making education policy, rather than be dismissed or contradicted by decision makers. Introduces basic concepts, discusses the difficulty, describes a variety of approaches that have been followed, presents six case studies, and offers a model based on the successes and failures of the authors and other researchers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Research Utilization: Why It Is Important, Why It Is an Issue, Why It Is Difficult32What Do We Mean by Informed Policy Making?293Why Education Policies Are So Difficult to Inform434Utilization as Using Precooked Conclusions715Utilization Stimulated by Providing Decision Makers with Data836Informing Policy by Constructing Knowledge1077The Etosha Conference in Namibia1278Conducting an Education Sector Assessment in Egypt1319Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Honduras14510Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Colombia15311Conducting a Participatory Sector Assessment in El Salvador15912Policy Dialogue as Organizational Learning in Paraguay16713A Model to Inform Policy with Research-Based Knowledge177References191Index201
\ BooknewsHarvard researchers explore the process by which research in education can be integrated into making education policy, rather than be dismissed or contradicted by decision makers. Introduces basic concepts, discusses the difficulty, describes a variety of approaches that have been followed, presents six case studies, and offers a model based on the successes and failures of the authors and other researchers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
