Informed Dialogue: Using Research to Shape Education Policy Around the World / Edition 1

by Noel Mcginn, Fernando Reimers

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275954437
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/1997
Series:	Washington Papers; 170
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

FERNANDO REIMERS is a Policy Fellow (Education Specialist) at the Harvard Institute for International Development. On leave from Harvard he is currently serving as senior education specialist at the World Bank. He is coauthor (with D. Warwick) of Hope or Despair: Learning in Pakistan's Primary Schools (Praeger, 1995) and author of other books and articles on education and development. He has advised governments, universities and international agencies in 10 countries in Latin America, as well as in Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan.

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 editor of Crossing Lines: Research and Policy Networks for Developing Country Educators (Praeger, 1996). 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Concepts and Issues
Research Utilization: Why It's Important, Why It's an Issue, Why It's Difficult
What Do We Mean by Informed Policymaking?
Why Education Policies Are So Difficult to Inform
Approaches to Informing Policy for Education
Utilization as Using Pre-Cooked Conclusions
Utilization Stimulated by Providing Decision Makers with Data
Informing Policy by Constructing Knowledge
Case Studies of Use of Information in Policymaking
Namibia: Consultation for Change, the Etosha Conference
Conducting an Education Sector Assessment in Egypt
Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Honduras
Conducting an Education Policy Survey in Colombia
Conducting a Participatory Sector Assessment in El Salvador
Policy Dialogue as Organizational Learning in Paraguay
Fitting It All Together: A Model to Inform Policy with Research-based Knowledge
Bibliography
Index