{"product_id":"how-schools-do-policy-policy-enactments-in-secondary-schools","title":"How Schools Do Policy: Policy Enactments in Secondary Schools","description":"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 be ‘implemented’ by schools. In response to this, a great deal of attention has been given to evaluating ‘how well’ policies are realised in practice – implemented! Less attention has been paid to understanding how schools actually deal with these multiple, and sometimes contradictory, policy demands; creatively working to interpret policy texts and translate these into practices, in real material conditions and varying resources – how they are enacted! Based on a long-term qualitative study of four ‘ordinary’ secondary schools, and working on the interface of theory with data, this book explores how schools enact, rather than implement, policy. It focuses on:\ncontexts of ‘policy work’ in schools;\nteachers as policy subjects;\nteachers as policy actors;\npolicy texts, artefacts and events;\nstandards, behaviour and learning policies.\nThis book offers an original and very grounded analysis of how schools and teachers do policy. It will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of education, education policy and social policy, as well as school leaders, in the UK and beyond.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0415676274\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0415676274.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ball, Stephen J J.|Maguire, Meg|Braun, Annette\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41629609525306,"sku":"DBV.0415676274.G","price":42.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0415676274-0.jpg?v=1788406215","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/how-schools-do-policy-policy-enactments-in-secondary-schools","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}