Advising on and Making Education Policy

This book brings an eclectic mix of contributors from around the world together to share important insights about policy advice and policy making in education— to give readers a better sense of what policy creation can entail, and who might be and how they might be involved. Coming from a range of jurisdictions, the chapters in this book have been authored by people with important insights to share from their experiences of doing and researching policy advice and policy making in education: civil servants, consultants, knowledge mobilizers, school staff, and university-based researchers and teacher educators.

While many chapters focus on policy advice and policy making at national and subnational levels, others challenge the common (mis)perception that policy making is confined to governments. Thus, there are chapters that illustrate that education policy is produced in education institutions such as schools too. Moreover, other chapters highlight how intermediary bodies and higher education academics are shaping education policy at various levels.

Taken together the chapters in Advising on and Making Education Policy: New Perspectives on Past and Present Procedures reveal some of the inner workings of government departments, exemplify educators, students and parents as policy makers, and highlight how there are a wide range of additional groups and individuals having influence and impact in the policy ecosystem.