Informed Dialogue: Using Research to Shape Education Policy Around the World (Washington Papers; 170) - Softcover

Mcginn, Noel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0275954439 ISBN 13: 9780275954437

Publisher: Praeger, 1997

Synopsis

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 literature in research utilization in education is also discussed.

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About the Author

NOEL McGINN is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and Fellow (emeritus) at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He is coauthor (with R. G. King, R. Guerra, and D. Kline) of The Provincial Universities of Mexico (Praeger, 1979), and coauthor (with F. Reimers) ofIInformed Dialogue: Using Research to Shape Education Policy Around the World (Praeger, 1997). He has published many other books and articles on education and development. He has advised governments, universities, and research centers and international agencies in 24 countries in all continents on issues of education policy. He was the principal investigator of Project BRIDGES, a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development to research the determinants of student achievement in developing countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275954439
• ISBN 13: 9780275954437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224