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Policy-Making in Education

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Handbook of Historical Studies in Education

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The introduction to the chapter outlines factors which need to be borne in mind when analyzing the making of educational policy and highlights some of the major contrasts between states and nations in different parts of the globe. The chapter then moves on to a case study of the historical development of educational policy and policy-making in the UK. This history is seen as a contributory factor leading to the crisis in policy-making which has developed at the present time. The chapter concludes with a brief analysis of that crisis and argues that a reconsideration of how education policy is made and where it is leading is required, which can only be effective if it takes account of the issues raised in the chapter.

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  1. University of Wales, Wales, UK

    Roy Lowe

  2. UCL Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK

    Roy Lowe

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  1. Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

    Tanya Fitzgerald

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Lowe, R. (2020). Policy-Making in Education. In: Fitzgerald, T. (eds) Handbook of Historical Studies in Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2362-0_35

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