
Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. February 2024
Book
Hardback
130 pages
978-1-032-60647-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book places a focus on educational ecosystems - that is, understanding the complex nature of educational experiences and promoting a coordinated set of policy and practice solutions to address interrelated problems that manifest in school and student outcomes.
Educational policy and politics have been dominated by school improvement initiatives that locate educational problems and solutions in schools themselves, rather than in the systemic and structural roots of those problems: segregation, poverty, and histories of compounding inequality. Youth outcomes that we associate with schools (e.g., achievement, attendance, graduation) are the consequences of systemic structural and environmental factors that interact with the lived experiences of students in their communities and schools. This insightful volume provides examples of how to understand and analyse educational issues ecologically and evidence on the opportunities and challenges with forging cross-sector partnerships to address educational issues ecologically.
Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research will be a key resource for practitioners and researchers of education leadership and policy, educational administration, educational research, educational studies and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education.
Educational policy and politics have been dominated by school improvement initiatives that locate educational problems and solutions in schools themselves, rather than in the systemic and structural roots of those problems: segregation, poverty, and histories of compounding inequality. Youth outcomes that we associate with schools (e.g., achievement, attendance, graduation) are the consequences of systemic structural and environmental factors that interact with the lived experiences of students in their communities and schools. This insightful volume provides examples of how to understand and analyse educational issues ecologically and evidence on the opportunities and challenges with forging cross-sector partnerships to address educational issues ecologically.
Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research will be a key resource for practitioners and researchers of education leadership and policy, educational administration, educational research, educational studies and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-60647-7 (9781032606477)
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Persons
Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Ph.D., is the Leonard Kaplan Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Wayne State University, USA. She is the director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research.
Jeremy Singer, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate with the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University, USA, and a research affiliate of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research. He formerly taught in the Detroit Public Schools.
Michael Gottfried, Ph.D., is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research focuses on education policy and the economics of education.
Jeremy Singer, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate with the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University, USA, and a research affiliate of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research. He formerly taught in the Detroit Public Schools.
Michael Gottfried, Ph.D., is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research focuses on education policy and the economics of education.
Editor
Wayne State University, USA
Michigan State University, USA
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Content
Introduction: Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research 1. Well-Being and Equity: A Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Rethinking Education Policy 2. Does Parental Involvement Change After Schools Assign Students an IEP? 3. Homelessness and School Choice: Examining the School Choice Experiences of Families Living in Shelter 4. Examining the English Learner Policy Ecology: How Educators Navigated the Provision of Designated English Language Development (ELD) Support at the Secondary Level 5. Open Enrollment and Disrupting the Political Ecology of U.S. Public Education 6. Coordinating the Mesosystem: An Ecological Approach to Addressing Chronic Absenteeism 7. Promoting Ecological Approaches to Educational Issues: Evidence from a Partnership around Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit 8. Beyond the School Walls: Collective Impact in Micropolitan School-Community Partnerships 9. An Application of the Social-ecological Systems Framework to Promoting Evidence-informed Policy and Practice Concluding Note on Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research