How Schools Do Policy: Policy Enactments in Secondary Schools

by Stephen J Ball, Meg Maguire, Annette Braun

Overview

Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to beimplemented by schools. In response to this, a great deal of attentio

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136520945
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	879 KB

About the Author

Stephen J Ball, Meg Maguire, Annette Braun

Table of Contents

Foreword or Introduction 1. Beyond implementation –Towards a Theory of Policy Enactment 2. Taking Context Seriously 3. Doing Enactment: People, Culture and Policy Work 4. Policy into Practice 5. Whatever happened to... 6. Policy Enactments – In Theory and Practice