Book contents
- Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational Reform
- Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Radical Curriculum Change and the Politics of ‘Implementation’
- 3 Towards a Play-Based Pedagogy in Ghanaian Kindergarten Education
- 4 Implementing Fee-Free Education in Rwanda
- 5 Policy Implementation in a Sisyphean State
- 6 Reforming the School System
- 7 Educational Reform in Scotland
- 8 The Role of Textbooks in Improving Education in Portugal
- 9 Turning Social Capital into a Working Wage
- 10 High-Performance and Equity
- 11 Missing Opportunity?
- 12 Conclusion
- Index
- References
12 - Conclusion
Global and National Shifts in Implementing Educational Reform: Learning across the Cases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2025
Book contents
- Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational Reform
- Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Radical Curriculum Change and the Politics of ‘Implementation’
- 3 Towards a Play-Based Pedagogy in Ghanaian Kindergarten Education
- 4 Implementing Fee-Free Education in Rwanda
- 5 Policy Implementation in a Sisyphean State
- 6 Reforming the School System
- 7 Educational Reform in Scotland
- 8 The Role of Textbooks in Improving Education in Portugal
- 9 Turning Social Capital into a Working Wage
- 10 High-Performance and Equity
- 11 Missing Opportunity?
- 12 Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Context, time scales and communication continue to be significant factors in designing and enacting reform but the cases highlight some new and complex features around the shortcomings of managerialist models of public policy and the challenges of divisiveness and intolerance in public policy debate. We identify the need to update the concept of education policy implementation from the dominant managerial model. The second major change is the intensified educational policy arena. It shows increased polarisation and ideological policy making and less respect for democratic processes as well as evidence and research in many settings. The final section of the chapter discusses what forms of knowledge do and could drive the implementation of educational reform. The task of having constructive dialogues about differences in education is a necessary challenge to be faced.
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- Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational ReformCase Studies from Around the Globe, pp. 186 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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