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12 - Conclusion

Global and National Shifts in Implementing Educational Reform: Learning across the Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2025

By
Colleen McLaughlin  and
Alan Ruby
Edited by
Colleen McLaughlin  and
Alan Ruby
Colleen McLaughlin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Alan Ruby
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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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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shiftsinternational educational reformpolitical polarisationpolitics and knowledge
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Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational Reform , pp. 186 - 200
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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