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Thinking Complexity in Public Policy
This chapter begins by describing what is meant by policy, offering definitions and highlighting assumptions underpinning it. The multiple and...
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Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development
In education systems around the globe influenced by neoliberalism, teachers commonly experience reforms which emphasise local responsibility and...
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Mature Australian VET markets: a data-driven case study of public policy implementation
Australian vocational education and training (VET) policy makers have persistently proposed more user choice when reforming the national training...
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An Analysis of the COVID-19-Induced Flexible Grading Policy at a Public University
To help students cope with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions offered students flexible grading policies that...
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How free tuition became a policy in Chile: the importance of policy actors and their beliefs
In recent decades, there has been a revival of free tuition policies around the world. Understanding the current revival of these policies is...
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Gender Based Violence and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia
The chapter examines the legal and public policy toward gender-based violence in post-Soviet and contemporary Russia. Gender-based violence (GBV) is...
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Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England
In Anglophone neoliberal jurisdictions, policy highlights the private goods associated with higher education but largely neglects the sector’s...
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A policy document analysis of student digital rights in the Australian schooling context
Contemporary education is being undeniably shaped by datafication, and while new algorithmic and automated decision-making processes can have...
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School autonomy reform and social justice: a policy overview of Australian public education (1970s to present)
This paper provides an overview of the policies of school autonomy in Australian public education from the Karmel report in 1973 to the present day....
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State and Public Policy in Education: From the Weakness of the Public to an Agenda for Social Development and Redistribution
Beginning in the 1980s, market pressures informed a redefinition of state responsibilities regarding welfare policies and social justice. In this...
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Policy translation in assemblage: networked actors mediating science teachers’ policy play
Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense before using in practice. Using...
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Pencils Down… for Good? The Expansion of Test-Optional Policy After COVID-19
Test-optional admissions policies have been steadily, though slowly, expanding throughout higher education institutions for decades. The COVID-19...
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Numbers don’t speak for themselves: strategies of using numbers in public policy discourse
In mathematics education, there is general agreement regarding the significance of mathematical literacy (also quantitative literacy or numeracy) for...
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Bridging principal-agent and mechanism design theories: an integrated conceptual framework for policy evaluation
Despite the movement toward post-new public management in western countries, the new public (NPM) management model is still a popular managerialism...
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Learning, Compliance, and Psychological Burdens When Undocumented Immigrants Claim In-State Tuition Policy
In the United States, some states allow undocumented immigrants to benefit from in-state resident tuition policy at public colleges and universities,...
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Women Hajj Pilgrims from India: Navigating Social, Legal, and Policy Challenges to Reclaim Public Spaces
Women’s access to and experience of public spaces plays out very differently from that of men’s access to such spaces across countries and cultures....
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Rendering Iran Language-In-Education Policy Problematic: A CDA Poststructural Approach
Due to their mostly normative and legitimatory nature, public policies at large and education policies in particular are liable to frame perceived...
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Job preferences of master of public health students in China: a discrete choice experiment
BackgroundThe shortage of public health personnel and the uneven distribution between urban and rural areas are thorny issues in China. Master of...
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Management models and their suitability in mobilising entrepreneurs towards implementation of education policy on development of school infrastructure facilities
Implementation of education policy on infrastructure facilities’ development needs resources (human, non-human), creativity and innovation in...
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Narrating the Belt and Road Education Policy: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
This article analyzes the China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) education policy using a critical policy discourse approach. At the textual level,...
